Mental Health in Schools and Public Health.
Part of a special section on mental health in children. Public health professionals must collaborate with schools to promote mental health in young people. Currently, youngsters manifesting emotional upset, misbehavior, and learning problems are routinely assigned psychiatric labels denoting sever...
| Published in: | Public Health Reports Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 294 - 299 |
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Association of Schools of Public Health
May/June 2006
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