CHILDREN ARE LEFT OUT

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 collab oration in work with children and emphasizes the need for psychiatrist s and allied health professionals to take major public health and gove rnment policy roles to ensure that child and adolescent health and men tal health are taken seriously.