Child and adolescent mental health as a public problem

Authors

  • Marianella Abarzúa Coordinadora Hospital Día para Adolescentes, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Académica de Humanismo Cristiano
  • Marta González Coordinadora Unidad de Psicoanálisis con Niños y Adolescentes, Clínica de Atención Psicológica, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The present paper the fundamental aspects of Chile's public mental health policies, specifically those addressed to children and adolescents. Based on a critical analysis of the State´s technical regulatory framework on jyperkinetic disorder and shizophrenia, it poses a question about the implicit childhood notion contained in the mental health policy discourse.

Keywords:

Mental health public policies, childhood