Word: mental
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Though many adopted children went on to live contented, successful lives, others suffered from the start and were slow to heal, a phenomenon largely ignored by the mental-health community. The visceral sense of loss, psychologists suggest, even in the case of infant adoptions, is an abiding , wound, too little understood. Adoptees represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet by some estimates they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas...
...needs kids must enter the relationship with their eyes open. The minimum requirements are a level head and a spacious heart. Susan Edelstein, a clinical social worker at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is supervising a study of children exposed to drugs, has a list of the mental and spiritual resources that the parents of such children should have. It could apply to anyone who takes on a special-needs kid. "You've got to be optimistic without denying what is happening," she says. "You've got to focus on strengths, keep perspective, set reasonable goals...
...study, based on surveys of hospitals,community health centers and privatepsychiatrists, asked about the ownership ofhospitals and health care facilities by largecorporations and how open competitive marketsaffect mental health care...
NIMH Senior Science Advisor Ira D. Glick alsopresented a national plan to combine public andprivate mental health services in the battleagainst severe mental illness, particularlyschizophrenia...
...conference was held at the K-Schoolbecause, "Mental health care is a concern ofgovernment because it is a big investment of thepublic. This is one of the few schools ofgovernment that anyone is talking about mentalhealth," Dorwart said...