BACKGROUND Ethiopia is a country in which child and adolescent mental health needs are often not met. In order to promote capacity building, a Collaborative International Exchange Programme has been established between Jimma University at Jimma, Ethiopia, and Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. The programme focuses on training non-physician health professionals in mental health sp...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify hospital resources by region, determine human resources by type of service and region, and describe how services generally operate in child psychiatry within the province of Quebec. METHODS Data collection took place from May to October 2001. We sent a semistructured questionnaire to all child psychiatry service heads. We collected human resource data a...

The accelerated divorce rate has greatly increased the number of children of divorce. In addition, the children and families of divorce are proportionately overrepresented in populations seeking child guidance and psychiatric services. However, the patterns in the use of such services by these families has been unexamined. In our study we find no differences in the use of outpatient psychiatric...

The discipline of child psychiatry is in its adolescence and, like all adolescents, it is searching for an identity. Having pioneered the multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of emotional disorder the psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and child psychotherapists who go to make up the teams in child guidance clinics are awaiting the decision of their elders as to where they...

OBJECTIVE The United States is facing a severe shortage of academic child and adolescent psychiatrists. This article reviews a model integrated pathway to improve recruitment. METHODS The authors review training portals for research in child and adolescent psychiatry. There is a summary of a focus group discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Integrated Research Pathway in Child...

Child maltreatment is one of the most deleterious known influences on the mental health and development of children. This article briefly reviews a complement of methods that are ready to incorporate into child and adolescent psychiatric practice, by having been validated either with respect to the prevention of child maltreatment or with respect to adverse outcomes associated with maltreatment...

A questionnaire study was conducted in a health district to evaluate the attitudes of paediatricians and child psychiatry staff as to which categories of problems should be referred to child psychiatry. In the majority of categories the two groups disagreed as to the frequency with which the problem should be referred. In the categories relating to child sexual abuse responses were often not in...

Shirley, M.D., Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Child Psychiatry Unit, Stanford University School of Medicine. N.Y. Commonwealth Fund. Oxford University Press. 25s. This is an eminently competent and satisfactory book which should prove very useful to students, paediatricians and practitioners desirous of becoming familiar with the principles of ch...

There is growing attention to the importance of infant mental health, defined as recognizing, evaluating, and treating behavioral health symptoms in the first 3 years of life [1]. Currently, there are concerns about overmedication in lieu of comprehensive biopsychosocial treatments with respect to very young children, as well as the realization that more comprehensive services can help in preve...