Abstract
The Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (ÖGKJP) is publishing aseries of articles in aspecial issue of Neuropsychiatrie dealing with the current provision of care in child and adolescent psychiatry. Aim of this article is to give an overview of provision of care for children and adolescents with mental health problems in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland and then draw conclusions for the Austrian child and adolescent psychiatric care landscape. First, epidemiologic data as well as different traditions and treatment philosophies and their effect for provision of care in child and adolescent psychiatry in Austria, Germany and Switzerland are presented. Subsequently, data of provided child and adolescent psychiatric care in Austria and Germany are presented and related to each other. On the basis of the data presented, the current deterioration of mental health in children and adolescents due to the pandemic as well as the deficit of available inpatient beds (0.03-0.09) there is an urgent need for action in Austrian provision of child and adolescent psychiatric care. An improvement of the structural deficits in the child and adolescent psychiatric research and care landscape, asignificant increase of capacities for inpatient treatment, day-care as well as outpatient treatment with establishment of modern treatment options such as home treatment is necessary.
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