Group calls for change in mental health terminologyBy Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Chris McMillan
May 3
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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.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/05/01/2003836134

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