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Myths & Facts about “Child Mental Health”

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Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2015

❌Psychiatric disorders in childhood result from bad parenting.

✅Bad parenting can influence, but most disorders have biological basis.

❌Therapy is a waste of time in children.

✅There is best evidence for therapies in childhood disorder.

❌Children with dyslexia cannot learn to read.

✅Dyslexic children can learn to read, but with extra help from parents/therapist.

By Dr. Raj Kiran D.