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Psych ward for 12 year old?
Does anybody know of a mental institution or psych ward near Murfreesboro or Nashville, Tennessee that will accept a girl of 12 years of age?
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Mental health can be a tricky thing when it comes to children. Although mental illness does not discriminate against age, because children's brains are not fully developed, sometimes doctors are weary to give diagnosis, medication, or be willing to institutionalize a child. You would have to check whether or not the institution accepts children as well as research whether a diagnosis is available for a person this age.
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Talk to a doctor. They will point you in the right direction. If you need the help, please get it. It'll be the best thinges you do for yourself.
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What usually happens is that if a parent suspects their child to be in crisis or mentally ill they must take them to an ER. An on call psychiatrist will figure out the nature of the illness and then make arrangements to have the child sent to a hospital for children. There usually isn't a ward for kids in most local hospitals almost always for adults.
The children's hospital will have a psychiatric ward for children in this age group. A doctor told me once that they make the diagnosis at a local hospital and then put in a transfer via ambulance. Even if there are institutions near you it's not as simple as going to one and asking that they take her.
Leave this up to the ER doctors to figure out and have them make the arrangements if they are necessary and it's a crisis situation as it's what they do every day and can get her help immediately.
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The following URL It brought up a listing of several different Pediatric hospitals. You will probably need a psychiatrists referral in order to place a child into one of these hospitals or have them examined by their staff doctor and admitted.
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It brought up a listing of several different Pediactirc hospitals
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