The majority of children and young people with psychiatric disorders never receive treatment from mental health services, and only a fraction benefit from professionals potentially well placed to help them in primary care.
Research by Elena Garralda of Imperial College's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit highlights that GPs, paediatricians, health visitors and school nurses are in a unique position to support children with mental health needs, pointing out physical and mental illnesses often occur together, or are linked.
But she says the "comparatively little interface work between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and primary health care" has resulted in sparse training for health professionals.
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