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A psychiatric residential centre for children and adolescents: a pilot study of its patients’characteristics and improvement while resident
Author(s) -
MOORE LUCY M.,
O'CONNOR TAMARA W.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1991.tb00694.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , residential school , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , socioeconomics
Summary This paper describes the history and philosophy of a unique residential treatment unit in Ireland which caters for emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children and adolescents. A pilot study was undertaken to help identify the type of patient seen and who benefited from the treatment.