Abstract
In 1964, the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute began exploring new ways to meet an increasing demand for adolescent inpatient services. It studied past experience with admissions of adolescents to its adult inpatient service and concluded that the comming ling of adults and youths in proper ratio was not just an unavoidable expedient; in fact, problems of group control were mitigated by such integration in a well-planned program. The NPI continued evaluating adolescents on the adult wards but began admitting more of them as day patients, keeping families and referring agencies involved in the action.
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