Date: January 2007
Worried about your child’s mental health?
These new information pamphlets may help
In Canada and the U.S., one in five children growing up today shows signs of a mental health problem. Early intervention can help many of these children lead normal, healthy lives. Yet too many children – 5 out of every 6 – are not receiving the mental health services they need.
How do you know if a child or teen needs help? How do you know what will work best to treat the problem that’s been identified? Where can you go for information that is based on real science, not just opinion?
To help parents, teachers and others make the right choices when it comes to kids’ mental health, the Offord Centre for Child Studies has produced a series of information pamphlets.
Four pamphlets are currently available on Attention Problems, Behaviour Problems, Mood Problems, and Anxiety Problems. They provide information about what these problems look like, how to distinguish them from normal behaviour, and what treatments are effective.
You can view all four pamphlets and order copies through the Offord Centre web site at www.knowledge.offordcentre.com. You can also download your own copies directly from the site after completing a brief on-line survey to say what you like and don’t like about the pamphlets. This feedback will be used to improve the pamphlets before providing them to family physicians, pediatricians, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to give to families concerned about their child’s or teen’s mental health.
The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development was created by the Offord
Centre for Child Studies, a leader in the study of social, emotional and behavioral
problems that impede the healthy development of children. Through the Centre
of Knowledge web site, Canadians have access to the latest, evidence-based information
on healthy child development and children’s mental health problems, including
plain language summaries of new and relevant research from around the world.
Information provide by Parents for Children's Menal Health
For more information: www.parentsforchildrensmentalhealth.org
Revised: Jan 07