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The treatment of children in psychiatric units is by now well established. There has been a steady development in this area since the first units were started some 40 years ago, and inpatient intervention has become part of the standard psychiatric treatment, for a small minority of children with psychiatric disorders.
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Garralda, E. (1986). Inpatient Treatment of Children: A Psychiatric Perspective. In: Edwards, G. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6775-2_6
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