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01-10-2017 | Editorial

Psychiatry, mental health, mental disability: time for some necessary clarifications

Authors: Bruno Falissard, Marlène Monégat, Gordon Harper

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 10/2017

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In most issues of ECAP, we have a wide panorama of papers dealing either with psychiatric disorders [1], disability [2], mental health [3] or subthreshold manifestations [4]. But are we really clear about these different constructs? Good science can be done only with the use of clear and well-defined concepts. Let us see how some of these key notions of the psychiatric and mental health literature are commonly defined and to what extent the situation needs to be clarified. …

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Title: Psychiatry, mental health, mental disability: time for some necessary clarifications
Authors: Bruno Falissard
Marlène Monégat
Gordon Harper
Publication date: 01-10-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 10/2017
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1037-4

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