Dear Colleagues:
As a child, I lived in Phoenix in the 1950s when Phoenix was 150,000 and Tucson was bout 50,000. My name is Dennis D. Embry, Ph.D. I am a prominent prevention scientist in the United States, with large efforts in the Commonwealth and European Union. I was in the old Osborne Elementary School, which no longer exists. Much has changed.Few children then were diagnosed and treated for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. According to many sources, something like 50% of children are taking psychotropic medications in the United States noted by the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203731004576046073896475588. The extent of DSM disorders among children and youth is shocking, and it is not caused by parents per se. Rather, there are a host of social constructions that are creating the problem.
PAXIS Institute is sited in Tucson at 4980 North Sabino Canyon Rd, 85750. My colleagues here in Tucson, other states, and even other countries toil at finding, promoting and scaling up prevention and/or early intervention in North America, the EU, the Commonwealth, and among Indigenous groups. How do we get funded? That is a good question, and it is bested cited by Dr. Benjamin Franklin: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”. If you are interested in preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in Arizona or other areas in the United States, Canada, the EU and the Commonwealth, please contact us. Our contact: PAXIS Institute, 4980 North Sabino Canyon Rd, Tucson, AZ 85750. Our web site is: http://www.paxis.org. Our phone is 520-299-6770. My direct email is dde@paxis.org
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