Ali Eslami
PhD, MD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Director of Research, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency Unit, BC Children’s Hospital
Our study identifies specific vulnerability periods for individuals with Internalizing and externalizing disorders. This can help to develop preventative measures to decrease psychiatric crises and consequently emergency admissions during these periods. It could potentially help mental health policymakers as well as community care providers including outpatient psychiatrists to plan for adequate supportive measures to mitigate the impact of mounted stress during the academic year, as well as lack of school structure for these two specifically vulnerable cohorts of patients.
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