Description:Lyons presents a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system and the need to spur change so help it "evolve" into a far better system. Reaching back past the early 19th century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment, Lyons highlights the history of child mental health systems, including 19th century roots of the U.S. system. He shows us why modern leaders and Presidents have issued calls for improvements - or "evolution" - of the system here. Barriers have, however, slowed or stopped the evolution. Those barrers could be removed, Lyons explains, with community development and better clinical outcomes management.