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Residential Treatment Of Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents, Rosemary Brown Sutherland
Residential Treatment Of Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents, Rosemary Brown Sutherland
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This study was requested by Dr. Ira B. Korman, Administrator, Woodland Park Mental Health Center. Woodland Park Mental Health Center currently provides a program of short-term evaluation and crisis care for adolescents. The staff there find it is difficult to locate suitable out-of-home placements for certain of their adolescent patients concluding hospitalization. Their concern for this group of hard-to-place patients has led to this inquiry, the purposes of which are to (1) assess need, (2) design a residential program, and (3) consider the feasibility of its implementation.