outpatient commitmentcommunity treatment orderspreventing hospitalizationleast restrictive alternative to hospitalizationinvoluntary treatmentOver the course of a decade in Victoria, Australia, this study considered how, for whom, under what circumstances, and with what consequences for a patient's treatment ...
A Clinical and Legal Evaluation of the Need for Involuntary Commitment The first was, where possible, to discharge patients into less restrictive/more appropriate community-based programs. The second objective was to prevent inappropriate admissions into the psychiatric hospitals. Through these two objecti...
INDETERMINATE COMMITMENT of the mentally ill was abolished in California July 1, 1969. In its place, a variety of procedures were established for time-limited involuntary detention of certain mentally disordered persons. This system now has been in use long enough to pennit an early appraisal of...
Civil libertarians and patient's rights advocates consistently argue against involuntary civil commitment because of the significant deprivation of liberties involved. Where does one draw the line, balancing individual liberties against protection of society? Did the public hospital system in New York ...
Define Involuntary commitment. Involuntary commitment synonyms, Involuntary commitment pronunciation, Involuntary commitment translation, English dictionary definition of Involuntary commitment. n. 1. One of several components; a piece. 2. A subdivision
Coercion and commitment: understanding involuntary mental hospital admission. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1995;18:249–63. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Wynn R. Coercion in psychiatric care: clinical, legal, and ethical controversies. Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract. 2006;10:247–51. Article PubMed...
MHSA funds may have facilitated the discharge of clients from the hospital by providing enhanced resources and access to a range of less-restrictive community-based treatment alternatives. 展开 关键词: Humans Mental Health Services Length of Stay Commitment of Mentally Ill Financing, Government ...
treatment of individuals with anorexia nervosa within Victoria The current legislative scheme as evident in the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic), which permits detention and coercive treatment is a broad approach which may contravene human rights principles such as the right to refuse medical treatment....
Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 1849, the Association of Medical Superin- tendents was still quite small and its members showed little anxiety as yet over legal problems relating to mental hospital commitment. To many of the super- intendents, Ray's chairmanship might well have seemed ...
Although involuntary commitment (IC) is a serious intervention in psychiatry and must always be regarded as an emergency measure, the knowledge about influencing factors is limited. Aims were to test the hypothesis that duration of involuntary hospitalization and associated parameters differ for IC's ...