The mental health of children and adolescents : an area of global neglect : a report from the World Psychiatric Association Presidential Programme on Child Mental Health / editors, Helmut Remschmidt [and others]
The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents; Contents; Contributors; Advisory Board; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. A Global Programme for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Challenge in the New Millennium; 2. Public Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Review of the Literature; 3. The Epidemiology and Burden of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorder; 4. Disseminating Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Methods: An International Feasibility Study; 5. Prevention of Mental Health Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Summary
Around the world, a vast number of children and adolescents suffer from mental and neurological disorders and only a small proportion of them receive adequate care. This is so in both developing and developed countries. The need to raise awareness about this problem and provide specific advice regarding their prevention and treatment was identified as a priority for the World Psychiatric Association by Professor Ahmed Okasha during his Presidency of the Association and resulted in the creation of his Presidential Programme on Child Mental Health
