Child and adolescent mental health and education: bibliometric analysisof Brazilian and international scientific production (1968-2014)

International documents point out the importance of awareness strategies and health and education carefor children and adolescents with psychological distress. This study aimed to identify and characterizearticles that establish the interface between mental health and education in children and adolescents in bothBrazilian and international scientific literature in both national and international scientific literature. Themethodology adopted was the bibliometric analysis, and data sources were drawn from databases named Lilacs and Medline. We analyzed 43 articles published between 1968 and 2014. The results indicated thatthe current decade brings together most of the studies, and the international character of regulations in thefield of education and mental health may have stimulated this research agenda. With a predominance ofquantitative approaches, the articles were published by researchers of the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africaand Oceania. These studies contribute to an interdisciplinary discussion on the topic of health and educationof children and adolescents in psychological distress...