Pediatric Referrals for Urgent Psychiatric Consultation: Clinical Characteristics, Diagnoses and Outcome of 4 to 12 Year Old Children.

Conclusion: Regardless of source of referral, the most common reason for urgent psychiatric referral was aggression and the majority of individuals did not require inpatient psychiatric care. Collaborative multiagency education in child and adolescent mental health disorders, including the role of learning disabilities in externalizing behaviors, may improve the capacity of CMHA and schools to identify and provide focused interventions that may, in turn, reduce behavioral crisis and visits to Emergency Departments and urgent clinics. PMID: 30487940 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry Source Type: research