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Why early-childhood mental health services make sense.

Boston Globe

"Just take a deep breath” was the advice one mother got from the pediatrician when she went in for help with her 3-year-old’s extreme tantrums. At a birthday party not long before, he stamped his feet, cried, and shouted when his mother stopped him from scooping a toy car off the cake. They left the party with him in tears, but after the unsatisfactory visit to the doctor, it was the mother who cried. Read more...