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Child and adolescent psychiatric disorders in general practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. G. Jezzard
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It has been known for some time that the majority of adult mental health problems within any community are seen within general practice, making up a fifth to a quarter of the general practitioner's workload (Shepherd & Clare, 1981). Most patients are not referred to specialist services. It is therefore the primary care team and not the psychiatric specialist who assumes the major burden of responsibility for the care of mental disorder. Hence, more attempts are now being made to improve the quality of psychiatric care within general practice. Most of the research on mental health morbidity within primary care has been in the field of adult mental health and it is only relatively recently that equivalent information on child mental health morbidity has become available. In parallel, an increasing number of studies examining the effectiveness of interventions in primary care have been undertaken and different models of mental health service provision within this context have been described (Strathdee & Williams, 1984). There are few evaluated studies of interventions in primary care focused on child mental health. Most guidance for the development of such services has to be obtained from the adult mental health literature, or from work with other types of childhood disorder, often in non-general practice settings.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 1 , Issue 7 , September 1995 , pp. 184 - 191
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1995 

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