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On the Trail of the CPA’s Delusional Psych Statistics…

filed in Canadian Psychological Association, Mental Health Statistics, Youth on Oct.03, 2008

CBC news reports that Canadian psychologists want more mental health services for kids and want to know what the federal political parties plan to do about it. The article cites a Canadian Psychological Association press release that says 15% of Canadian kids, or 1.2 million of them, have mental illnesses, and that most of these [...]

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