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We don't do suicide watch
- Author:
- JAMES Adam
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 129, September 2004, p.24.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Profiles the Acorn programme, a ward for 12 self-harming clients at the Retreat, the therapeutic community near York. Staff aim to create 'treatment alliances', facilitating clients to take responsibility for their behaviour. There is no suicide watch, clients are expected to dress their own self-harm wounds, and if they storm out threatening to injure themselves nurses will not rush in pursuit. They are encouraged to take collective responsibility for each other, and emergency community meetings decide what to do if a client is judged to be at risk from self-harm.