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How the environment affects mental health.

Michael Rutter
- 01 Jan 2005 - 
- Vol. 186, Iss: 1, pp 4-6
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For many years there was an assumption that the extensive documentation of statistical associations between risky environments and mental disorders necessarily represented the operation of environmentally mediated causal mechanisms.
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For many years there was an assumption that the extensive documentation of statistical associations between risky environments and mental disorders necessarily represented the operation of environmentally mediated causal mechanisms. Three considerations challenged that assumption. First,

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