[Psychiatric interventions in children under five years of age: prevention or care?].
We analysed the consultations of children under the age of 5 attending our pedopsychiatric outpatients department over a period of 1 year. Although paediatricians and pedopsychiatrists agree on the necessity to start therapy as early as possible, we found that many children were seen to late, at a time when they had difficulties, and that the principle of early intervention in pedopsychiatric needs to be better applied during infancy in an effort to prevent psychological disturbances.
Battista
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Service de pédopsychiatrie, hôpital de Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, France.
Poinso
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F
Rufo
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M
D000367:Age Factors; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011315:Preventive Medicine
Les interventions psychiatriques chez l'enfant de moins de 5 ans: prévention ou soin?