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The Stigma of Raising a Mentally Ill Child – 60 Minutes Overtime
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What's the difference between raising a child with a physical illness and raising one with a mental illness? "Casseroles," say a group of mothers to Scott Pelley.
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How the Mental Health System Fails Our Children – 60 Minutes
Sen. Creigh Deeds describes how the system failed his son when he was sent home from the ER because there were no psychiatric facilities that could admit him.
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Teen Caught in Medical, Custody Dispute Leaves Children's Hospital – The Boston Globe
Justina Pelletier, the 15-year-old Connecticut girl at the center of a searing medical and custody dispute, has been discharged from Boston Children's Hospital, where she had been treated for nearly a year. She was moved Friday from the hospital's locked psychiatric unit to a residential program at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in Framingham. However, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families has decided that Children's doctors will continue to treat her for the time being, until the state agency settles on a new care team.
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Teen Hospitalized in "Medical Child-Abuse Case" to be Released – People Magazine
Eleven months after she was brought to Boston Children's Hospital by her mother, 15-year-old Justina Pelletier will be released to a transitional facility and will remain in the care of the Massachusetts child protection agency, a judge ruled Friday.
The move, which will take place in the next few weeks, comes after a nearly year-long battle in a so-called 'medical child-abuse case.'
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Teen in custody battle to be moved from hospital – The Boston Globe
JUDGE SEEKS TO END IMPASSE.
Justina Pelletier, a teenager caught in the middle of a high-profile medical dispute and child custody battle, is expected to be discharged from Boston Children's Hospital to a residential facility in the next few weeks, after a juvenile court judge moved on Friday to end a stalemate that has kept the girl at the hospital for almost a year.
Eleven months to the day after Justina's mother brought her to Children's, Judge Joseph Johnston put in motion a plan that fulfills the parents' long-sought wish to have her leave the locked psychiatric ward of the Harvard teaching hospital. But instead of allowing the 15-year-old to return to her home in West Hartford, Conn., the judge ruled that the Massachusetts child protection agency would maintain custody of her for now, according to three sources briefed on the plan.