[Child psychiatry and social security]. / Psiquiatría infantil y seguridad social.

The historic development of the units that provided psychiatric care to children and adolescents, which finally yielded the first child guidance clinic early this century is briefly reviewed. We describe the organization of a child psychiatry unit within a social security institute (ISSSTE). The importance of a child psychiatrist, a psychologist and a social worker working together in a team approach to the evaluation and treatment of children is emphasized. The ISSSTE has provided psychiatric care to children and adolescents since 1961. For this purpose the Institute has five psychiatric units, four of them within a general hospital, the other in a neuropsychiatry out-patient clinic. This clinic admitted 749 new cases to the Child Psychiatry department during 1976. Up to December 1976, the total population of the clinic was 14 271 patients, of which 5 471 are children and adolescents. Last but not least, we describe an ambitious project for an in-patient unit for children and adolescents as part of a psychiatric hospital.

[Psychiatry and mental health in the Institutp de Seguridad Social para los Trabajadores del Estado. Philosophy of its development]. / Psiquiatría y salud mental en el ISSSTE. Filosofía de su desarrollo.

In 1972, prepaid medical care for government employees provided by their social security institute, ISSSTE, was reorganized. A division of planning and technical standards was established, within which a Department of Psychiatry was included. Psychiatric care was restructured at three levels: psychiatric hospital, psychiatric OPD at clinic and hospital level and a pilot program in community psychiatry. A three-year psychiatric residency program was established, in addition to participation in other postgraduate, in-service training and monographic courses. Systematic research was started, as well as a publications program, working relationship with other institutions and societies were enhanced. A descriptive example is Child Psychiatry. Most frequent diagnoses are reviewed, and development of services is followed in relation to pediatric departments.

[The place of psychotherapy in an institution of social security]. / El lugar de la psicoterapia en una institución de seguridad social.

In a social security system that includes prepaid, integral medical care, psychiatric services function in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a close relationship with the rest of medical care, the psychotherapies are part of an eclectic system of psychiatric attention, but also of the psychological aspects of institution-patients, institution-beneficiaries and institution-staff relationships. Within diverse psychotherapeutic schools, common denominators of the therapeutic process are outlined, as well as the background philosophy of the system.