Video-linked court liaison services: Forging new frontiers in psychiatry in Western Australia

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-56

  Brett, Adam ^a,b   Blumberg, Lawrence ^a  

^a Community Forensic Mental Health Services ^*  (Australia)

^b State Forensic Mental Health Services ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Court liaison; Forensic mental health; Remote and rural; Videoconferencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; VIDEOCONFERENCING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33645145843     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1665.2006.02236.x     Document Type: Article

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