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The Future of Adolescent Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William Ll. Parry-Jones
William Ll. Parry-Jones*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ
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Abstract

Background

Appraisal of the future of adolescent psychiatry is required urgently, in view of the increasing scrutiny of mental health service priorities and the need for informed planning of psychiatric training and manpower requirements.

Method

Future developments are set in the context of the changing concept and connotations of adolescence, the history and present position of adolescent psychiatry, and the rationale for separate services.

Results

Predictions are derived using trend extrapolation, in relation to a number of factors likely to determine the future. These include the social value attached to adolescence and youth, the status of adolescent medicine, the definition of clinical boundaries, the upper age-limit of services, investment in prevention, postgraduate training, research, the evaluation and marketing of adolescent psychiatry and, finally, its recognition as a separate sub-speciality.

Conclusions

Predictions suggest that adolescent psychiatry will assume an expanding clinical role and increasing academic influence in the 21st century.

Type
Review Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 166 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 299 - 305
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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