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Article: Mental illnesses start earlier than thought, expert says.(MENTAL HEALTH)
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- Family Practice News
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- May 1, 2009
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BALTIMORE -- There's a growing appreciation among pediatric psychiatrists that mental illnesses occur among preschoolers and that identification and treatment are critical to getting these kids back on track for healthy development, according to Dr. Joyce N. Harrison, director of Preschool Clinical Programs at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore.
"When I was in training 15 years ago, I thought all psychiatric disorders started at age 6 because that's when we started seeing kids, but we've begun to see kids younger and younger," she said at a meeting on developmental disabilities sponsored by Johns Hopkins University.
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