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Growth Chart for the Mind May Be Able to Detect Psychosis Early

Author(s) -

Knopf Alison

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1556-7575

pISSN - 1058-1073

DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30056

Subject(s) - wonder , chart , psychology , psychosis , theory of mind , mental health , psychiatry , growth chart , early psychosis , psychoanalysis , social psychology , medicine , pediatrics , statistics , cognition , mathematics

At first, when I heard that the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was in favor of the burgeoning idea of a “growth chart for the mind,” I was concerned. Don't kids who are too fat or too thin already feel stigmatized? What about kids who are at 5% for height — or 105% for that matter? Who is to say what is “normal” for the developing mind? Besides, as a parent, I can't help but wonder whether it isn't “normal” for kids to be “psychotic”?

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