The author suggests that large numbers of children and adolescents in
America are being left out of mental health and mental health care. He
discusses areas, such as poverty, teenage pregnancy, and violence, in which
public policy has failed. He calls for interdisciplinary collaboration in
work with children and emphasizes the need for psychiatrists and allied
health professionals to take major public health and government policy
roles to ensure that child and adolescent health and mental health are
taken seriously.
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