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The treatment of child abuse in an in-patient setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roger Kennedy
Roger Kennedy*
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Families Unit, Cassel Hospital, Richmond, Surrey
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The Families Unit at the Cassel Hospital is the only medical establishment with in-patient beds for whole families, and it can provide the opportunity for detailed and relatively safe observation and treatment of severely disordered families. A number of different kinds of family are treated, including those in which a mother has suffered a severe post puerperal breakdown, those in which one or more members of the family have a severe psychiatric condition such as chronic depression, as well as families whose whole functioning in many aspects of life has broken down.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 9 , September 1988 , pp. 361 - 366
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