No Place for the Teenager
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Two and a half years ago the Ministry of Health asked the 15 regional hospital boards to expand their psychiatric facilities for adolescents. The National Association for Mental Health then collected detailed information about the boards' expansion plans. But late last year a further NAMH survey revealed that in the 2\ years since the Ministry's call there had been a national increase of only 34 more beds for adolescents. Gius-tina Ryan traces this sorry story. By 1964 it had become clear to psychiatrists and Workers in the mental health field that psychiatric Provisions for adolescents were pitifully inadequate. Even if a few adolescents could be treated satisfactorily in adult wards it was felt that they were better cared for in units of their own age group. Acting on sent out a memorandum to regional hospital boards recommending that the number of hospital beds for seriously maladjusted or mentally ill adolescents be increased as soon as possible. The Ministry wanted to see a ratio of 20-25 beds per million home population , that is, about 1,100 beds for England and ^ales instead of the 180 then available. What happened? By July 1966, about 2\ years after the publication of the memorandum, all the hospital regions together were providing a grand total of only 34 more beds than in 1964, bringing the national average up to only 4-5 beds per million of the population .
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