[Ukrainian Psychiatric Consultation Center-- a new organizational form of outpatient psychiatric services for the population].

The paper treats of the experience gained by the Republican Psychiatric Counselling Center set up in the USSR for the first time. The Center is oriented at the improvement of the highly specialized psychiatric services for patients with psychic disturbances. During 1980-1987, the number of patients referred to the Center by the chief psychiatrists of the regions or by the Ministry of Public Health of the Ukrainian SSR and of those who resorted to the Center's services on their own initiative increased 7-fold, namely from 857 to 6,024 persons. The structure and functions of the Center are described as are prospects of the development of this kind of the outpatient psychiatric services in all the Union Republics, territories, regions and large industrial cities of this country.