title: [Issues in mental health services for children and adolescents].
abstract: Existing system of psychiatric care for children and adolescents is in need of basic reorganization. The authors propose: 1) reestablishment of the speciality of children's and adolescent psychiatrist, a specialist in children's and adolescent narcology, a psychiatrist of early child's age and a pediatric medical psychologist; 2) carrying out the reform of child mental care equal in rights with general psychiatry; 3) preservation and widening of both specialized inpatient and outpatient clinics in general system of child's mental care; 4) legislative and public rehabilitation of children's psychiatry, which suffered considerably from antipsychiatric campaign; 5) professionally organized systematic elevation of psychohygienic, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic knowledges of allied medical and other specialists as well as of parents and of all population too; 6) integration and interaction of govermental services concerning mental health of children and adolescent; 7) organization of regional psychoprophylaxic interdisciplinary centers for children and adolescent.
authors.forename: Iu S
authors.initials: IuS
authors.lastname: Shevchenko
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Severnyĭ
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Iovchuk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*