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Teaching children about mental health in school

The article listed a few statistics that are absolutely critical, i.e.: Two to three percent of children ages six to 12 can have depression. Between 1-2% of children as young as three years of age are depressed, and More than 7% of children aged three to seven have anxiety disorders. These statistics are not so foreign to us here at home. A few weeks ago, we read of the suicide of a nine-year-old girl who hung herself with a sarong at her bedroom window. Neither is this incident the first we have read on the suicide of a child. In February (2021), the Green Ribbon Group published an infographic on the mental health landscape of children and adolescents in Malaysia.

Pediatrician Eileen Costello, profiled by Nell Porter Brown

Photograph by Stu Rosner The ambulance rolls onto a treeless street in Boston, stopping at a triple-decker across from a defunct bar and an asphalt lot. The medical team greets Crystal, exiting the house with her son in a baby carrier, and helps them inside the tight, cozy space. It’s Jasiah’s four-month exam, and because Crystal has missed several appointments, physician Eileen Costello ’80, chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has come to her. Crystal is part of SOFAR (Supporting Our Families through Addiction and Recovery), a multidisciplinary treatment program Costello and her team created in 2017 to pick up where intensive ob-gyn care ends. “For the vast majority of our moms,” she says, “getting pregnant was a catalyst for recovery, so when we meet them, most are in their first year, which is an extremely high-risk time for relapse.”

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