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A child in detention: dilemmas faced by health professionals
Karen J Zwi1, Brenda Herzberg, David Dossetor
1Department of Psychological Medicine, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW. Zwik@sesahs.nsw.gov.au
The Medical Journal of Australia
|September 11, 2003
Abstract:
A 6-year-old child, held in detention with his parents pending the outcome of their application for refugee status, manifested psychological distress by repeated episodes of refusing to eat or drink. This case presented clinical and ethical dilemmas for health professionals who were constrained from acting in the child's best interests by government policy of mandatory detention.