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Peer reviewedJaffa, Tony; Dezsery, Anna Maria – Journal of Adolescence, 1989
Analyzed 3 years of admissions to regional adolescent psychiatric unit to obtain information on referral, adolescent and family, and behaviors leading to admission. Found slight excess of male admissions; two-thirds of admissions to be 14 or 15 years of age; high proportion of social worker referrals. Intolerable physical violence was reason for…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Foreign Countries
