This paper reviews significant outcome studies regarding the hospitalization of latency-age children and examines pertinent admission criteria. Essential diagnostic and therapeutic components, including milieu therapy, individual therapy, family work, pharmacotherapy and school are discussed. The future role of psychiatric hospitalization of children is examined.

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Sociocultural influences are seen as pre‐eminent in the development of community child psychiatry, with special emphasis given to issues of social reform, race and poverty. Current status of the field is discussed within the framework of a typology that identifies programs as being clinically‐adapted, socially‐adapted, or community‐adapted.