Parents review roles to better the stage they set for their children

The country’s first mental health service for toddlers may be on its way, but it’s long overdue writes Claire O’Sullivan.

GROUNDBREAKING steps are being taken by two Southern Health Board clinical psychologists towards the development of the country’s first mental health service for toddlers.

International statistics show one in five children will develop social and emotional difficulties before the age of 18 and, according to psychologists, many of these difficulties become apparent before the child reaches the age of three.