This study acknowledges the discrepancy between what the clinics believed to be the reason for the psychiatric hospitalization and what the patients believed to be the reason for their psychiatric hospitalization. In hope to improve inpatient psychiatric treatment, the study explores youth’s perspectives on the cause of their hospitalization. The study had a large sample size, analyzed numerous aspects of patients (physical health, group and individual therapy evaluations, firsthand information shared by patients, secondhand information shared by parents or teachers, and various hospitalization record) while they were in the hospital, and the results of the study corroborates with similar studies done in the past. The text helped me gain a
