Research view

Title: An epidemiological case for a separate adolescent psychiatry?
Author: Patton, George
Abstract:
Provides an overview of the origins of child psychiatry and discusses several lines of epidemiological evidence that have fundamentally changed views of adolescent mental disorders. These are (1) data that challenged a long-held reputation of adolescence
Journal: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 30(5), Oct 1996: . 563-566