§ 124230

It is the purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to encourage the Regents of the University of California to augment the academic child and adolescent programs at the medical schools of the University of California. The programs shall include, but not be limited to, one or more of the following elements:

(a) Clinical or postgraduate educational programs in child and adolescent psychiatry to instruct and train students in recognizing and treating children with mental and emotional problems, both organic and functional.

(b) Provision of continuing education for specialists in the care and treatment of children and adolescents with mental and emotional problems.

(c) Research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders of children.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)