Mental hospitalization of troublesome youth: an analysis of skyrocketing admission rates.
Mental hospitalization of troublesome youth: an analysis of skyrocketing admission rates.
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问题青年的精神病院：入院率飙升的分析。
DOI：
10.2307/1228816
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发表时间：
1988
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
L. Weithorn
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作者：
L. Weithorn
在本世纪，儿童和青少年住院精神卫生设施的收治率稳步上升。尽管近几十年来的去机构化政策2成功地降低了青少年到州和县精神病院的入院率，但青少年到私立医院精神科的入院率却急剧上升，在1980年至1984年期间增加了四倍以上。3此外，数据显示，儿童和青少年到私立医院精神科的入院率4不仅在上升，5在这份报告中，我认为儿童和青少年精神病住院率的上升反映了越来越多地使用住院治疗来管理这种干预通常不适用的人群。
Rates of admission' of children and adolescents to inpatient mental health facilities have increased steadily during this century. Although deinstitutionalization2 policies of recent decades successfully reduced adolescent admission rates to state and county mental hospitals, adolescent admission rates to psychiatric units of private hospitals have jumped dramatically, increasing over four-fold between 1980 and 1984.3 In addition, data reveal that rates of psychiatric admission4 of children and adolescents to private hospitals are not only rising, but are doing so at a steadily accelerating pace.5 In this note, I contend that the rising rates of psychiatric admission of children and adolescents reflect an increasing use of hospitalization to manage a population for whom such intervention is typically inap-