Mental Illness in Children: Childhood Illness and Supporting the Family

Brain Sci. 2017 Aug 8;7(8):97. doi: 10.3390/brainsci7080097.

Abstract

Childhood is a stage of life that is filled with potential for development, and the early years of childhood see immense physical changes in growth; mastery over body functions like movement; the acquisition of language and cognitive development to understand their own and others' thinking and reasoning; and the psychosocial development of trust in the world, comfort in the care they receive from parents and caregivers, and the sense of being secure in themselves that this engenders. [...].

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