The Policy Context and Governance
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents: A Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach, 2022, pp. 161-167
- Issue Date:
- 2022-06-24
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The Walker Unit opened in 2009 as the first of its kind in Australia to provide an intensive longer stay secure psychiatric inpatient rehabilitation programme for adolescents with severe mental illness who had not benefited from at least one but generally repeated admissions or prolonged care in other tertiary inpatient unit settings. Unusually, this happened at a time when the focus of reform in mental health at a State and National level is on community models, early intervention and community residential care rather than extended inpatient care in the specialist clinical sector. As a first of its kind, the Unit is an important innovation in inpatient mental health care and has garnered a reputation in the clinical sector for creating value in mental health care.
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