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Child Mental Health is Everybody's Business: The Prevalence of Contact with Public Sector Services by Type of Disorder Among British School Children in a Three‐Year Period
Author(s) -
Ford Tamsin,
Hamilton Helena,
Meltzer Howard,
Goodman Robert
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00414.x
Subject(s) - mental health , psychiatry , anxiety , public health , service (business) , type of service , medicine , mental health service , telephone interview , psychology , family medicine , nursing , sociology , social science , economy , economics
Method: A third of the children from the 1999 British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey were followed‐up over 3 years. Parents provided summary information on service contacts in relation to mental health; selected subgroups provided more detailed information by telephone interview. Results: Common overlaps in service use were between health services, between teachers and educational specialists, and between the latter and CAMHS or social services. Services other than primary health care saw more children with externalising disorders, while children with anxiety disorders were less likely than children with other psychiatric disorders to be in contact with any service. Conclusions: Child mental health is everybody's business, and professionals need to be alert(ed) to the types of disorders that children using their service may have.