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Emergencies in Child Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. E. Kenyon
F. E. Kenyon*
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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In a recent report (Reidy, 1960) of experiences in running a newly opened Centre for disturbed pre-adolescents, it was found that the majority of cases had presented as emergencies. The author goes on to state that “To my knowledge there has been little written on what constitutes a psychiatric emergency in pre-adolescent children. The dangers of suicide and homicide, the main reason for emergency hospitalization of adults, are, according to the literature, rarely present in pre-adolescents.”

Type
Clinical
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 455 , July 1962 , pp. 419 - 426
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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