Explain youth detention mental health plan to a unit manager — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes after reading time. You are the youth detention psychiatry registrar speaking with a unit manager (examiner role-player).^[1]

Candidate instructions. Acknowledge operational pressure and safety goals. Explain that detained youth have very high rates of mental health and substance problems. Cover observation levels, why prolonged isolation is not treatment, trauma-informed responses, treating ADHD/depression/SUD rather than “badness,” multi-agency plans including community programmes after release, and hospital transfer principles. No invented statute numbers. Check understanding.^[2][5]