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Most psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents develop slowly and rarely present as emergencies. This chapter outlines the exceptions, and certain situations in which prompt action may avert psychiatric symptoms in children caught up in events they cannot influence or control.
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Black, D. (1987). Psychiatric emergencies in children and adolescents. In: Pollitt, J.D. (eds) Psychiatric Emergencies in Family Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3191-6_10
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