Is There a National Policy For Children and Youth With Serious Emotional Disturbance?
本文考察了美国针对需要心理健康服务的儿童的国家政策现状，指出多机构服务中的碎片化和重复问题，导致政策实施极为困难。
This article examines the status of a national mental health policy for children in need of mental health services. The need for systems planning and services integration involving multiple agencies is presented. The different programs of the major governmental agencies involved in the delivery of services to children are reviewed, as are the range of services provided. This article demonstrates the fragmentation and duplication that is endemic in all aspects of mental health, and that consequently makes policy implementation exceedingly difficult.