Commentary: The King is Naked – a very subjective look at child and adolescent psychiatry

There is a great crisis in child-adolescent psychiatry, but we will not solve it just only by increasing the number of psychiatrists or psychiatric wards. The young patients described in Agnieszka Wlazłos editorial indeed should not end up in a psychiatry department, but that does not mean they do not need any institutional support at all. In this commentary I would like to add two simple but important remarks: we need a serious discussion of the consequences of childhood trauma and mental problems in adolescence and also a well-functioning prevention system to avoid them.