Screening the Mentally Ill Before Court Commitment
Author: California. Department of Mental Hygiene. Office of Planning
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 108
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Author: California. Department of Mental Hygiene. Office of Planning
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Arthur Grace
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth H. Stann
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harvard Medical School. Laboratory of Community Psychiatry
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 138
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. Cohrssen
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Debra Pinals
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0195329147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives readers comprehensive overview of the laws, policies, and evaluation practices focused on the civil commitment of persons with mental illness.
Author: Harvard Medical School. Laboratory of Community Psychiatry
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195068801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents warily predicted chaos and mass suffering. Now, with the tide of reform ebbing, Paul Appelbaum examines what these changes have wrought. The message emerging from his careful review is a surprising one: less has changed than almost anyone predicted. When the law gets in the way of commonsense beliefs about the need to treat serious mental illness, it is often put aside. Judges, lawyers, mental health professionals, family members, and the general public collaborate in fashioning an extra-legal process to accomplish what they think is fair for persons with mental illness. Appelbaum demonstrates this thesis in analyses of four of the most important reforms in mental health law over the past two decades: involuntary hospitalization, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. This timely and important work will inform and enlighten the debate about mental health law and its implications and consequences. The book will be essential for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, lawyers, and all those concerned with our policies toward people with mental illness.
Author: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0873182200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, People With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Answering a Cry for Help represents the collective wisdom of leaders in community psychiatry and is the third in a series of successful publications that have used Dear Abby letters as source material. The letters, submitted by readers with experience with mental illness and the criminal justice system, constitute a rich, real-world repository for the case stories presented in this fascinating volume. Using the experiences shared in the letters, the authors employ the Sequential Intercept Model to present a series of chapters offering detailed recommendations for psychiatrists, group practices, and criminal justice entities on partnering with individuals who are at risk and their families, with the goal of improving outcomes. The book's many features and functions make it relevant to a diverse audience: The Dear Abby letters on which the book's stories are based are heartfelt and human, providing a depth of emotion and understanding that cannot be found elsewhere, and the down-to-earth writing style and real-world material are designed to be useful and compelling to both practitioner and layperson. The case-based recommendations for effective interventions are very specific and practical to promote and enhance clinical skill development. A robust set of appendices presents information for professionals on a variety of critically important topics, including principles for criminal justice and community psychiatry; sequential intercept mapping; stages of engagement with the criminal justice system; HIPAA regulations; screening and mental status/criminal justice history; essential systems of care; and the risk-need-responsivity model. An extensive section of criminal justice/mental health online resources addresses areas such as law enforcement, courts, corrections, evidence-based practices, veterans, organizations, and miscellaneous topics, providing avenues of information and assistance for individuals, families, and clinicians. This simple, evidence-based guide challenges psychiatrists to initiate changes in their clinical work; in the operation of their agencies, programs, and teams; and in their partnerships with local criminal justice and behavioral health providers to positively impact people with behavioral health conditions in the criminal justice system. Implementing the approaches described so eloquently in People With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Answering a Cry for Help can potentially reduce the overrepresentation of people with mental illnesses in justice settings, provide alternatives to incarceration, and divert individuals who do not pose a public safety risk from jail.