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Volume 335:2004-2005 December 26, 1996 Number 26

Do They Grow Out of It? Long-term outcomes of childhood disorders

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Edited by Lily Hechtman. 287 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1996. $40. ISBN 0-88048-703-8.

For many years, mental health professionals who work with children have been asked by parents, "Will my child grow out of it?" Those of us who have been careful to base our responses on the literature have had to reply in a way that undoubtedly seemed ambiguous to parents, often sounding as though we really didn't know. Now, in this book, we have the data, at least as they exist today. Clearly, as the number of investigations in this area grows, we will have answers that allow better prediction. However, we can now say that a large proportion of children . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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