Group calls for change in mental health terminologyBy Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
May 3, 2025
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Taipei Times
1st May 2025
Group calls for change in mental health terminology
By Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Action Alliance on Basic Education yesterday urged the government to stop using the terms “psychiatric disorder” and “mental illness,” and instead use the term “neurodiversity” to make children and parents more willing to seek treatment.
Changing the terminology could increase the number of children willing to be treated from 2.8 percent to 15 percent within three years, it said.
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