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Peer reviewedParker, Kevin C. H.; Roberts, Nasreen; Williams, Cheryl; Benjamin, Marcia; Cripps, Linda; Woogh, Carolyn – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
The Rapid Response Model (RRM) provides psychiatric services to children and adolescents seen at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department or at the Urgent Consultation Clinic. In a naturally occurring experiment, the RRM was introduced, withdrawn and restarted. The RRM reduced nighttime Emergency Consultations and inpatient admissions from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Consultation Programs, Emergency Programs
Peer reviewedKiesler, Charles A. – American Psychologist, 1982
Reviews 10 studies in which psychiatric patients considered seriously ill were randomly assigned to either inpatient care or some alternative mode of outpatient care. Finds that in no case were the outcomes of hospitalization more positive than alternative treatment. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Institutional Role, Institutionalized Persons
