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Open Access 01-12-2020 | COVID-19 | Editorial

Child and adolescent mental health service provision and research during the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, opportunities, and a call for submissions

Authors: Andreas Witt, Anna Ordóñez, Andrés Martin, Benedetto Vitiello, Jörg M. Fegert

Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | Issue 1/2020

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Although the virus has mercifully had a small direct impact on children and those underage, it has shown no such mercies on the families and extended community of caretakers supporting children. Even if this is not a ‘childhood pandemic’, it is very much a family and society pandemic. It is clear that the reverberations of this time will be enduring, and that our work will be more needed than ever.

– Message from the IACAPAP President and Executive Committee, April 15, 2020 …

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Title: Child and adolescent mental health service provision and research during the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, opportunities, and a call for submissions
Authors: Andreas Witt
Anna Ordóñez
Andrés Martin
Benedetto Vitiello
Jörg M. Fegert
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1753-2000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-020-00324-8

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