Despite the increasing availability of legal services to the poor, the mentally ill remain
excluded from such benefits. Once an individual has been committed to an institution, the …

The author discusses“dangerousness to others” as a groundfor involuntary civil commitment
ofthe mentally ill, suggesting that there is often a confounding of legal! public-policy …

Involuntary outpatient civil commitment (IOC) is the legal and psychosocial process whereby
an allegedly mentally disordered and dangerous person is forced to undergo mental health …

An authoritative book on one of the most fundamental and contentious issues for health care
professionals Fully updated to include provisions of the Mental Capacity Act (April 2007); the …

The civil commitment statutes in effect in most states were passed at the end of an era of
expanding concern for individual rights (1). The laws reflect a desire to protect persons from …

Abstract The current Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code is
compared and contrasted with" The Commitment of the Insane—Abstract of the Laws of the …

Patients initially admitted to a state hospital under an emergency commitment procedure
were studied to identify the variables associated with their later change to voluntary status …

Med Law (2010) 29:193-204 Medicine and Law Medical Ethics ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF
STATUTORY COMMITTEES FOR INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATI Page 1 Med Law (2010) …

Center maintains that" Outpatient commitment laws—statutes authorizing courts to require
an indi vidual to accept outpatient mental health treat ment—are being proposed as a …

This study examined whether psychiatrists' attributions of responsibility for mental illnesses
affect their decisions about involuntary hospitalization. A survey that was mailed in 2002 to …