I wonder when the medications to treat these infant diseases will start to come:
Therapists are increasingly moving their treatments from the couch to the crib. While the field of infant mental health, which encompasses the study of children from birth through age three, has been around for decades, new research on everything from brain development to maternal depression is giving it a boost. A widely used mental health and development diagnostic manual for infants was revised last year for the first time since 1994 to include two new subsets of depression, five new subsets of anxiety disorders (including separation anxiety and social anxiety disorders) and six new subsets of feeding behavior disorders (including sensory food aversions and infantile anorexia).
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“sensory food aversions”???
So I guess you won’t be able to make your kid eat his peas any longer, without fear of aiding and abetting a “mental health disorder,” or having someone call Child Protection Services on you.
I hope insurance companies refuse payment.
0-3 is considered to be a crucial time in terms of early interventions – but that is generally intended for children who are at-risk in some way, not simply because the parents are hypochondriacs.
Miekke
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