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- Title
Poverty and Child Mental Health: Natural Experiments and Social Causation.
- Authors
Rutter, Michael
- Abstract
Presents an editorial on poverty and child mental health. Question if individuals with mental disorder drift into or remain in poverty or does the experience of poverty itself predispose to mental disorder; Article in this issue, "Relationships between poverty and psychopathology: a natural experiment," by Costello et al. tests the medical assumption that poverty predisposes to mental disorder: Need to differentiate between social selection and social causation; Beneficial effect on children relieved of poverty; Role of parenting.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MENTAL health; CHILD psychology; POVERTY; CHILD psychiatry; CHILD psychopathology; MENTAL illness; CHILD rearing; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 15, p2063
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.15.2063