Kids Do Get Better: Values Driven Inpatient Care

• By: Joseph Commisso, PhD David Woodlock Four Winds Hospital
• October 1st, 2010
• assessment, children, hospitalization, mental health, treatment
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In New York State, and across the country, the story of how mental health care began begins with inpatient care provided in large institutions located in a bucolic rural environment. This “humane treatment,” in its day, was considered a progressive avant-garde form of care. For decades this...