ABSTRACT
The history and roots of child psychiatry go back almost 250 years, yet the development of specific services for child psychiatry is much more recent, beginning only about 27 years ago in Iceland. The European Union of Medical Specialists (EUMS) has recently acknowledged child and adolescent psychiatry/psychotherapy as a main specialty in medicine. For decades, the main emphasis in the development of child psychiatry in the Nordic countries has been on promoting clinical services.
