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Mental Health Services for Children: Concerns and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Wynne Sandra Korr
Wynne Sandra Korr*
Affiliation:
School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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address for correspondence: Wynne Sandra Korr, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1010 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: wkorr@illinois.edu
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At various times in my career, I have focussed on mental health services for children and their basis in human rights principles. This year I returned to examining best practices and how they could be implemented in a particular place – the State of Illinois, in the United States, where I reside. I found myself reflecting on improvements in services over the last 40 years, but even more, on the significant challenges and gaps in our knowledge that remain. I want to focus this commentary on two topics I found most salient: Contradictions between principles and practice; and need for more research on how to provide services in the most restrictive settings – inpatient and residential.

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Children Australia , Volume 41 , Special Issue 3: CARING FOR CHILDREN OUTSIDE THE HOME – FROM INSTITUTIONS TO NATIONS , September 2016 , pp. 237 - 239
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2016 

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