Rilievi statistici nell’attività ambulatoriale in neuropsichiatria infantile

The authors have carried out a statistical investigation on the activities of the out-patients’ Department of Child Psychiatry and have focused their attention especially on the characteristics of the service and on its functioning. It is manifested that the average of patients are included between school age and pre-adolescence, that they come from low-middle class and that the kind of requests we receive involve all sectors of neurology and child psychiatry. It has also been evidenced a certain flexibility and adaptability in the operative suggestions, even if there was a basic limiting attitude as far as the most medicalizing and family involving aspects were concerned.