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The Chronic Mental Patient/II

Medical Entomology and ZoologyPublished 1 April 1987
W. Walter Menninger, Gerald T. Hannah
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TL;DR

This work focuses on training child psychiatrists and child mental health professionals to serve chronically mentally ill youth and systems of services needed for the chronic mentally ill child and adolescent.

Abstract

Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction. The Problem. The real problem: human pain. The chronic adult mental patient: an overview. The scope of the problem in children and adolescents. Policy representatives on the problem. Public and Private Sector Issues. Problems of the present system of services delivery. Problems and solutions in the private sector. Problems and solutions in the public sector. An integrated state system of services for seriously disturbed children. Special Issues. Training child psychiatrists and child mental health professionals to serve chronically mentally ill youth. The chronically ill child and the family. Treatment evaluation: a crucial element in quality care of chronically ill youth. Toward a Solution. Systems of services needed for the chronically mentally ill child and adolescent. The struggle for a strategy. Index.

Keywords

Health Professions