ABSTRACT
The first objective of this article;is to define, as the child psychiatry inpatient service team, the approaches to patients who need both professional help and treatment in terms of mental health and need protection from an infection during the Covid-19 outbreak. Secondly, to evaluate the adaptation of the clinical skills (mechanism) to this critical process. A great burden is imposed on health systems during COVID-19 Pandemic. In this process, it is essential to follow the guidelines on transmission of infection and provide inpatient service treatment for child and adolescent in urgent need of mental health treatment. Length of hospitalization may be shorter in the pandemic period and high rate of antipsychotic use and predominance of patients with insufficient response to monotherapy may be related to hospitalization of patients with more severe disease during pandemic period. Timely organized regulations in psychiatry clinics can be effective against risk of transmission. This study shows the importance of how the pandemic process and the psychiatric disease treatment process can be carried out together. The continuation of the treatment services with infectious prevention measures in the field of mental health during pandemic times has an crucial place. As the healthcare professionals in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, we think that it may be important to share inpatient service functioning and experiences in the face of the COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)