Mobile consultation: an integrative approach to mental health service to children

The authors describe the development of a consultation and education service in an inner-city catchment area. This service is unique in that its service pattern is integrated with a direct service component. It is implemented along a structural design incroporating a multidisciplinary mobile team responsive to variegated "consultation" requests from a dense population area with many first-line service providers of independent or insulated character. Satellite locations exist in specific neighborhoods to provide service. Consultation efforts are classified as services to individuals, groups, and the community at large.