Fox SS, Scherl DJ. Recovering the past: patient and family review of children's old mental health treatment records.
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY 1984;
54:290-297. [PMID:
6731595 DOI:
10.1111/j.1939-0025.1984.tb01496.x]
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Abstract
The right of access to old mental health treatment records creates unique challenges when requests are from former child patients. One agency's experience suggests that review of these records represents an attempt to understand current problems and concerns by searching for supposedly objective observations from the past.
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