Survey of mental illness in adolescence.

There is a need for more precise information on mental illness among adolescents. To date, studies of the incidence or prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in a community (Kessel, 1960; Srole et al., 1962 ; Taylor and Chave, 1964; Hare and Shaw, 1965) have failed to yield adequate information on its adolescents through not having examined the patterns of morbidity over the teenage years. The comprehensive study by Warren (1965) of 187 adolescents is solely concerned with inpatients. The aim of the present study was to assess the inception rate and the services provided for adolescent psychiatric disorders, as seen at specialist clinics. Such information