Gary Mihelish, local dentist and mental-health advocate, said a long-standing fallacy involving mental illness in children is that the parents are somehow to blame.
“There’s nothing worse than it being inferred that the family’s at fault for mental illness,” Mihelish said. “Families are not the problem – they’re part of the solution.”
The participation of loved ones in a child’s care is vital, Mihelish said at the groundbreaking for a housing facility for families at Shodair Children’s Hospital on Thursday.