Police referrals — a crisis intervention approach
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Psychiatric Referrals from the Police
this question. Our preliminary work suggested that the procedural vari ations apparent in the operation of s136 were associated with the place of safety used for assessment. In the course of these preliminary enquiries we established that the two places most commonly used for assessment were a psychi atric hospital (or unit )and a police station, the former being the preferred place in London a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.15.8.465