TAILIEUCHUNG - Child and adolescent psychiatry services in Singapore

Singapore is a small young city state with a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population. This article reviews the development of the country’s child and adolescent psychiatry services through the years, in the background of other developments within the country’s education, social and legal services. | Lim et al. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2015 9 7 DOI S13034-015-0037-8 CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW Open Access Child and adolescent psychiatry services in Singapore Choon Guan Lim1 Say How Ong1 2 Chee Hon Chin1 and Daniel Shuen Sheng Fung1 Abstract Singapore is a small young city state with a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population. This article reviews the development of the country s child and adolescent psychiatry services through the years in the background of other developments within the country s education social and legal services. Research and other available data on the prevalence of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in Singapore are summarized although there has been no nation-wide epidemiological study done. One of the most recent developments has been the establishment of a community mental health service which works collaboratively with schools and community partners. Some challenges are also discussed especially in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry training. Possible future directions include providing mental heath care for preschool children as well as epidemiological studies to identify disease prevalence and mental health needs among children and adolescents in Singapore. Keywords Child psychiatry Child mental health Adolescent psychiatry Singapore Education Introduction Singapore is a small island located within Southeast Asia at the southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula. We will provide a brief history of the country s development to provide the demographic and social backdrop against which child and adolescent psychiatric services subsequently developed. Following the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 Singapore transformed from a fishing village to become a flourishing British colony. In 1963 Singapore became part of the formation of Malaysia before gaining independence two years later. Singapore s population is multi-ethnic with Chinese making up the .

• Sức khỏe trẻ em
• Adolescent psychiatry
• Mental health
• Child psychiatry
• Child mental health
• Adolescent psychiatry
• Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry
• German speaking countries
• Clinician rated mental health
• Adolescent mental health services
• Teacher and adolescent ratings
• Non suicidal self injury
• Borderline personality disorder
• Forensic psychiatry
• Ethical issues
• Juvenile offenders
• The mentally disordered offender
• Ethics in forensic psychiatry
• Deviant and sick medical staff
• Cross institutional cooperation
• Youth welfare services
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Health care
• Social services
• Growing public health
• Mental disorder
• World Psychiatric Association
• World Association for Infant Mental Health
• Child mental health services
• Clinic profile
• Substance use
• Photo elicitation
• Family functioning
• Qualitative methods
• Mental disorders
• Health system
• Therapeutic alliance
• Residential psychiatry
• Multilevel analyses
• Routine outcome measurement
• Youth psychiatry
• Child semi residential psychiatric
• BMC Pediatrics
• Sleep medications
• Adolescent psychiatrists
• Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Psychotropic drugs
• Adolescent girls
• Anorexia nervosa
• Body image dissatisfaction
• Body image figure drawings
• Ethnic differences
• Child and adolescent psychiatric care
• Ethical considerations
• Diary method
• Qualitative content analysis
• Gender dysphoria
• Sex reassignment
• Adolescent development
• Clinical characteristics
• Adolescent females
• Children Depression Inventory
• Adolescent psychiatric clinics
• Neighbourhood social characteristics
• Psychiatric care
• Parent experiences questionnaire
• Outpatient child
• Self harm
• Adolescent health
• Subsequent risk
• Genetic diagnose
• Prognostic information
• Child mental health curriculum
• Low income country
• Capacity building
• WHO mhGAP intervention guide
• Program evaluation
• Migrating workers
• Child policy
• Advanced education
• Knowledge transfer
• Knowledge dissemination
• Open access
• Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
• Standardized assessment
• Mental health service
• Adolescent psychiatric
• Evidence based practice
• Treatment planning