Increasing systemic capacity to respond to child and adolescent mental health needs using reciprocal knowledge transfer with parents

IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Section A INTRODUCTION TO CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

We are honored to have the opportunity to provide this editorial for the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions’ From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Approximately 20% of children worldwide have at least one disabling mental illness, with half of all mental illnesses beginning before the age of 14. These data emphasize the...

Determinants of parents' experiences with outpatient child and adolescent mental health services

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated how demographic, clinical and organizational characteristics influence parents' experiences with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The objective of this study was to determine the effects of these characteristics on parents' experiences using data from a large national postal survey. METHOD A questionnaire was mailed to 17,871 parent...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Background: During the last decade, pharmaceutical spending for patients with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been escalating internationally. Objectives: First, to estimate future trends of ADHD-related drug expenditures from the perspectives of the statutory health insurance (SHI; Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) in Germany and the National Health Service (NHS) in Eng...

Challenges for child and adolescent mental health.