Commentary (on: Calton & Arcelus, Adolescent units: a need for change?)
2003; Royal College of Psychiatrists; Volume: 27; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1192/pb.27.8.290
ISSN1472-1473
Autores Tópico(s)Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
ResumoIt is often said that you can't hold back progress. For those who work with troubled teenagers, much therapeutic time is taken up helping them cope with the daunting developmental challenges of adolescence. A 14-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa told me recently that life felt like an escalator that was taking him inexorably upwards and onwards. ‘On an escalator, you can't usually see what's beyond the top, as it's out of sight,’ he told me, adding: ‘At least on an escalator there's a big red button you can press in an emergency and stop it – and then someone will come and help you.’ Not though in life, and evidently not in the NHS!
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