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Primary health care in child psychiatry
Author(s) -
Graham P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb07672.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , public health , primary care , medicine , psychiatry , child and adolescent psychiatry , primary health care , identification (biology) , family medicine , nursing , psychology , population , environmental health , botany , biology
Those involved in primary health care for children, especially family doctors and public health nurses, are already providing psychological, psychiatric and counselling services. A study of child consultations with family doctors suggested that in nearly half the attendances a significant psychosocial component was involved. Surveillance programmes currently recommended for implementation in the United Kingdom should result in early identification of severe parent‐child relationship problems and early management difficulties. It is uncertain whether effective prevention and treatment strategies exist to deal with these problems, however, but some reports are promising in this respect. The organisation and training of primary health care workers with children, to ensure their psychological needs are met, is also problematic. Greater awareness of the size of the problem could be learned at under‐graduate level and the holding of multi‐disciplinary courses for those already trained would also be helpful.