Children's and Adolescent Psychiatry: what have changed?
The article discusses the recent changes in children's and adolescents psychiatry, as well as the substantial gap between approaches and everyday practice of local specialists and those that are now generally accepted in the world children's psychiatry – i.e. epidemiological data, classifi cation, pharmacotherapy, mental health service, doctor-patient-family communications. Some reasons of these distinctions and their impact on the work of children's psychiatrist are discussed.