Abstract
There are few places in the world and virtually no country that can claim to have a comprehensive “system of care” for children and adolescents with mental disorders. There are excellent comprehensive programs in some jurisdictions and very well-meaning efforts in many, but a “system of care” implying a continuum in which there are services with a set of definable elements that facilitate access to appropriate levels of care and reduce the dependence on ineffective, excessive, or antiquated modes of care are rare. Understanding the current status of the care for children and adolescents with mental disorders and understanding the potential for the development of “systems of care” can serve to provide an impetus for the development of responsive, modern means for the needed care of children worldwide.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Bickman L (1996) A continuum of care: More is not better. American Psychologist, 51:689–701
Bickman L (1997) Resolving issues raised by the Fort Bragg evaluation: New directions for mental health services research. American Psychologist, 52:562–565
Bickman L, Summerfeldt WT, Noser K (1997) Comparative outcomes of emotionally disturbed children and adolescents in a system of services and usual care. Psychiatric Services, 48(12):1543–1548
Carlson M (2001) Child rights and mental health. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10(4): 825–839
Desjarlais R, Eisenberg L, Good B, et al. (eds) (1995) World Mental Health, New York, Oxford University Press
Earls F (2001) Community factors supporting child mental health. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10(4):693–709
Fayyad JA, Jahshan CS, Karam EG (2001) Systems development of child mental health services in developing countries in developing countries. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10(4):745–762
Kessler RC, et al. (1995) Social consequences of psychiatric disorders. I: Educational attainment. American J Psychiatry, 152(7):1026–1032
Saxe L (1998) Evaluating Community-based mental health services for children with serious mental illness: Toward a new paradigm of systems of care. In: Young JG, Ferrari P (eds) Designing Mental Health Services and Systems of Care for Children and Adolescents: A Shrewed Investment Philadelphia, PA, Brunner/Mazel, pp 105–121
Saxe L, Cross TP, Silverman N, et al. (1987) Children’s mental health: Problems and services. In: Bickman L, Rog D (eds) Creating a children’s mental health service system: Policy, research and evaluation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Scott S, Knapp M, Henderson J, et al. (2001) Financial cost of social exclusion: follow-up study of anti-social children into adulthood. Brit Med J, 322:191–195
Shatkin J, Belfer M (In press) The global absence of child and adolescent mental health policy. J Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Weissman MM, Wolk S, Goldstein RB, et al. (1999) Depressed adolescents grown up. JAMA, 281(18):1707–1713
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Belfer, M.L. (2004). Systems of Care: A Global Perspective. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-62197-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-18611-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive