Children are left out

Abstract

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.