Genetics is sometimes the Enemy of Parents in the Context of Mental Health Services1

Freddy A Paniagua
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Freddy A Paniagua: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2018, vol. 4, issue 3, 50-52

Abstract: The field of genetic epidemiology includes three sets of studies: family, twin, and adoption studies. This commentary argues that findings from these studies are sometimes used to blame parents for the development of developmental disabilities, emotional problems, or problem behaviors in their children. For this reason, this paper concludes that genetics as explanations of psychopathology among children is sometimes the enemy of parents and those parents should avoid mental health practitioners who emphasize genetics in the explanation of why children develop such psychopathology.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJIDD.2018.04.555638

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