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Contribution title 3482 - Project White List: Guidelines for the Cooperation of Swiss Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and public authorities with regard to involuntary hospitalization of minors
Contribution code PS02-77 (P)
Authors
  1. Angelo Bernardon Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, PDAG
  2. Magdalena Schneller Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie Presenter
  3. Hadmut Prün Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, KJPP
  4. Ulrich Müller-Knapp Klinik Sonnenhof
  5. Kaspar Stuker UPD Bern, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie
  6. Raphalea Juelke LUPS Luzern, Klinik für Kinder- u. Jugendpsychiatrie
  7. Regine Heimann UPKBS, Klinik für Kinder- u. Jugendpsychiatrie
Form of presentation Poster
Topic
  • Policy / advocacy
Abstract Goals:
To establish a uniform and clear framework for the involuntary hospitalization of minors in Switzerland and common standards of collaboration between Swiss Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Authorities for the Protection of Children and Adults.
To prevent wrongful hospital referrals with the best interest of the minor in mind and in consideration of non-clinical alternative placements and the preparation of the out-patient follow-up care.
To establish binding frame conditions for the implementation of the legal regulations and the respective medical clarification and treatment.
To establish Best Practice guidelines.

Content of the Project
Collection of questions with regard to the practice of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization of minors in different Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospitals in Switzerland. Comparison of the Regulations on Involuntary Hospitalization in Switzerland and the neighboring European countries. Collection of practice examples for the existing Swiss regulations and their evaluation with regard to their compatibility to the concrete medical conditions of a particular clinic and to the patients needs.

Outputs:
There is a legal uncertainty regarding involuntary hospitalization of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders. The Child and Adult Protection Law, the Swiss Family Law and regulations on the rights of patients contradict each other to some degree. A white list describing criteria of hospital-admission and –discharge for referrals of involuntary hospitalization as well as internal processes within the clinics would be for the benefit of the minor patients concerned and could reduce the legal uncertainty. Last but not least it would provide guidelines for the technical and professional conditions of a clinic to perform medical clarification and treatment of these cases.