Children and mental illness

The Action Signs Project
This file photo is from The Action Signs Project, a toolkit to help parents, educators and health professionals identify children at behavioral and emotional risk.
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Mayo Clinic and the REACH Institute based in New York have released a new report to help parents, doctors and childcare professionals identify mental illness in children. We'll hear how the report might impact today's youth and what parents and school professionals can do when they think there is a problem.

Guests:

Sue Abderholden: Executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota.

Harold Koplewicz, MD: Psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York City. He is one of the nation's leading child and adolescent psychiatrists.

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