Compared With Children Taken To Psychiatric ED By Family, Those Taken By Police After 911 Call More Likely To Be Male, Older, And Black, Study Indicates

Psychiatric News (10/28) reported, “Compared with children taken to a psychiatric emergency” department (ED) “by family, those taken by police after a 911 call were more likely to be male, older, and Black,” researchers concluded in the findings of a 339-child study, the findings of which were published online Oct. 27 in the journal Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Study Highlights Children Most Likely to Be Taken to Psychiatric ER By Police After 911 Call, Psychiatric News , October 28, 2022

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