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On Opening an Adolescent Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. C. Turle
G. C. Turle*
Affiliation:
Beech House In-patient Unit for Adolescent Boys, St. Augustine's Hospital, Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent
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The main purpose of this paper is to report our experience in developing a psychiatric in-patient unit for adolescent boys. The Unit is known as Beech House and contains 16 beds and has been operating since January, 1959. It is a non-statutory ward and is the first treatment unit of this kind attached to a large provincial mental hospital such as St. Augustine's. Its catchment area is limited to the South-East Metropolitan region which comprises Kent and part of East Sussex. Only exceptionally are cases from outside these two counties accepted into the unit.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 445 , October 1960 , pp. 1320 - 1326
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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