The difference between how many visits to child and adolescent psychiatry receive is large in the different regions of the country. In Västerbotten, the staff receive less than half as many as Gotland, where you have the most visits from all regions of the country. Liling Ståhl notes that BUP in the county only reports physical visits which can affect the figures.

- Then we want above all that we get order so that the right patient ends up at the right level. Anyone who can manage with a little less support should get it early in the care chain and it needs more get the time it needs. But on the whole, it's worrying, says Liling Ståhl.

She goes on to say that BUP in the county is generally understaffed and that the business has undergone a restructuring for several years and that it is hoped to increase the possibility of more visits this fall.

A lot of paperwork can make the visits difficult

Ing-Marie Wieselgren, project manager at Sweden's municipalities and county councils, believes that psychologists and curators in child and adolescent psychiatry need to spend a lot of time on administrative work and that this means that they do not have the opportunity to receive as many visits.

- If you find effective ways to reduce administration, you can get more patient time. Child psychiatry also does a great deal of indirect work, such as consultations and collaboration meetings with schools' student health and social services, she says in a press release.

She also believes that the reception that produces the most visits does not have to be the best.

- It may be that you sit in your office and produce a lot of visits while neglecting collaboration with social services and student health. This means that more patients will be admitted to child and adolescent psychiatry, when it could instead have been stopped at an earlier stage, says Ing-Marie Wieselgren.