Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

Dear Blog Readers,

          I’ve sent several emails to my “International Contacts (Africa & Europe), and still know response. Therefore, I viewed Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative website ((http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/). I chose to view CHNIA: ASSESSING CHILD MENTAL   HEALTH   NEEDS IN SHANGHAI. The Shanghai Mental Health Center’s Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry（DCAP）was founded in 1986.The department includes child and adolescent outpatient clinic and a child behavior research center. Since 2001, DCAP has been one of the key departments of Shanghai mental health center in 2006. DCAP also provides services which examine the social environment the child and family inhabits. These services include:

 1. Evaluation and general guidance regarding mental health for the children at the kindergarten, primary, and secondary school levels.

 2. Community education in most suburbs of Shanghai city regarding the science behind child and adolescent mental health. DCAP was approved as an ADHD health education base in China by the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China and is also able to provide significant support for to other training centers in Shanghai for the diagnosis and treatment of autism and mental retardation.

          Assessing children’s needs early with prevent him / her lacking in their skills. I say this because, I have a male cousin 19 years old and went off to college in a world of his on, and could not adapt. Yes, he was diagnosed with ADHD / ADD but, when both parents are in strong dial it present a problem.

In conclusion, Parents need to take the time and have assessments and health screening done for your children.