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nicas y el patrón de uso de la red asistencial de ristics of a sample of adolescents with difficul
una muestra de adolescentes graves de difícil ties under out-patient treatment, and how they
tratamiento ambulatorio atendidos en un C.S.M. use the mental heaIth resources. We focus on the
Se señalan las dificultades para su detección problems of early diagnosis and on the lack of
precoz y la ausencia de recursos terapéuticos in specific and intensive units in order to carry out
Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq.. 1996, vol. XVI. n.o 60, pp. 597-606.
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Material y métodos
Resultados
sos.) El 40,8% de los pacientes (11 casos) realizó en algún momento del trata
miento al menos 1 urgencia. La asistencia a otros tratamientos paralelos privados
se produjo en 9 casos.
Discusión
F 91 Trastornos disociales 10
F42 Trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo 3
F2ü Esquizofrenia 2
F29 Psicosis no orgánica sin especificar 2
F6ü Trastorno específico de la personalidad 2
F2l Trastorno esquizotípico 1
F32 Episodio depresivo 1
Total 27
Adolescentes graves 605 (15)
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* Consuelo Escudero, Félix García-Vilanova: Psicólogos. Alicia Sánchez, Alberto Ortiz, Iván de
la Mata: Psiquiatras. Equipo Infanto-Juvenil, S.S.M. Getafe, Madrid.
Correspondencia: Consuelo Escudero Álvaro, S.S.M. Getafe, CI Álvaro de Bazán, 12, Getafe,
28298 Madrid.
** Fecha de recepción: 15-IlI-1996.