“It is necessary to return the specialty“ Child Psychiatry ”. Today she is with us as an adult and gives a single diploma, but it is very important that this practice and the specifics of child psychiatry are also taught to our future specialists, ”RIA Novosti quotes Kuznetsov.
She also said that almost 900 thousand minors have mental disorders, and in Russia for the first time they diagnosed mental disorders in 20 thousand children aged 15-17 years old, and about 3.5 thousand adolescents aged 15-17 years old are diagnosed with mental retardation. .
In March, the Ministry of Health spoke about the most common mental disorders among Russians. So, in the first place were non-psychotic disorders, which were diagnosed in 2,000 647 patients (in 2012 - in 2,090,683 people).