Task Force Report
Author | : Connecticut. Task Force to Study Issues Relating to Involuntary Outpatient Commitment and Alternatives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization |
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Author | : Connecticut. Task Force to Study Issues Relating to Involuntary Outpatient Commitment and Alternatives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization |
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Author | : Dinah Miller |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-11 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1421420783 |
In Committed, psychiatrists Dinah Miller and Annette Hanson offer a thought-provoking and engaging account of the controversy surrounding involuntary psychiatric care in the United States. They bring the issue to life with first-hand accounts from patients, clinicians, advocates, and opponents. Looking at practices such as seclusion and restraint, involuntary medication, and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy--all within the context of civil rights--
Author | : M. Susan Ridgely |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780833029805 |
Many states have amended or interpreted their civil commitment statutes to allow for involuntary outpatient treatment.
Author | : Candice Player |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Preventive outpatient commitment laws require people with mental illnesses to participate in mental health treatment before they meet the criteria for inpatient civil commitment -- clear and convincing evidence of mental illness and dangerousness to self or others. These laws apply to people who are chronically ill but not imminently dangerous. Most outpatient commitment laws do not require a judicial determination of incompetence, nor do they require a criminal charge or a criminal conviction. As such, outpatient commitment statutes unearth an old question on law, ethics, and the limits of prevention: under what circumstances can we impose substantial restraints on individual liberty because we believe a person is likely to harm himself or others before he actually has done so?Although most authors rest the moral justification for outpatient commitment on a mental impairment -- be it impaired insight, decisional-incapacity or incompetence to refuse treatment, this Article claims that government interventions into self-regarding harm and other-regarding harm require distinct moral justifications. When our primary concern is one of self-regarding harm, a court order to participate in outpatient treatment may be appropriate, but only for people with mental illnesses who are incompetent to make treatment decisions on their own. If, however, we are concerned about harm to others, a court order to participate in outpatient treatment may be appropriate, but only for people with mental illnesses who lack the moral capacities for criminal responsibility -- either because they are unlikely to appreciate the wrongfulness of their conduct or because they are unable to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law.
Author | : Jane Henkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Guardian and ward |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : American Psychiatric Publishing |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Community mental health services |
ISBN | : 9780880482240 |
Author | : Gustavo Antonio Fernandez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Community mental health services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Deborah L. Dennis |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1475797273 |
Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals poignantly discuss the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this means forgoing treatment.
Author | : Saul Spigel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Involuntary treatment |
ISBN | : |
Discusses what other states do about committing people with psychiatric disabilities to outpatient treatment, a practice known as involuntary outpatient civil commitment or assisted outpatient treatment.
Author | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The author "reveals how we have failed our mentally ill and offers a viable, provocative blueprint for change."--Jacket.