Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation, or informally in Britain sectioning, being sectioned, commitment...

Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified agent to have symptoms of severe...

harmful to themselves or others. This form of involuntary treatment is distinct from involuntary commitment in that the individual subject to the order...

Voluntary commitment is the act or practice of choosing to admit oneself to a psychiatric hospital, or other mental health facility. Unlike in involuntary commitment...

some form of involuntary commitment, though individuals may be compelled to undergo treatment outside of hospitals via outpatient commitment. The diagnosis...

push for legal investigations and reform. The early focus was on involuntary commitment procedures. From 1988 to 1990 the Australian government held the...

Lot to Get Into Bellevue": A Pro-Rights Critique of New York's Involuntary Commitment Law". Fordham Urban Law Journal. 40 (1). Fordham University School...

emergency commitment (the equivalent of an involuntary [Baker Act] examination in Florida), long-term involuntary commitment (the equivalent of involuntary inpatient...

episode "Involuntary", a song on the M. Ward album Transfiguration of Vincent Involuntary action of the body, also known as reflex Involuntary commitment, psychiatric...

involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment...

Goffman for the purpose of abolishing involuntary psychiatric intervention, particularly involuntary commitment. The founding of the AAAIMH was announced...

opposed coercive psychiatry. He was a staunch opponent of civil commitment and involuntary psychiatric treatment, but he believed in and practiced psychiatry...

law enforcement and Shirley Allen, a 51-year-old woman resisting involuntary commitment. It is one of the longest single-person standoffs in history, and...

combination of those that may be considered deviant [citation needed]. Involuntary castration appears in the history of warfare, sometimes used by one side...

appropriate public education; laws that provide a right to treatment; involuntary commitment and guardianship laws; laws governing treatment professionals, including...

had comparatively slight symptoms which would not usually warrant involuntary commitment in Western countries.: 70  According to medical records, all these...

notoriety for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals and subsequent mental health struggles...

Intervention, is a Kentucky state law enacted in 2004 that allows the involuntary commitment of individuals for substance use disorder treatment through a civil...

predators, located on McNeil Island. Civil commitment is the subject of controversy because it allows the involuntary civil confinement of a sex offender after...

request, a referral from another health professional, or through involuntary commitment. Care of patients requiring psychiatric intervention usually encompasses...

were in agreement with Yaren's assessment and spoke in favour of involuntary commitment to a mental institution rather than prison time. The presiding judge...

use of formal coercion such as involuntary commitment combined with involuntary treatment.: 18  An example of involuntary treatment in mental health care...

him. The action sought $50,000,000 in damages. He said his four-day involuntary hospitalization in Jamaica Hospital Center's psychiatric ward was ordered...

commitment to a chosen value Promise, a commitment by someone to do or not do something Involuntary commitment, detainment in a mental hospital due to...

a long-term effect on the person(s). Psychiatric hospitals and involuntary commitment have been around for hundreds and even thousands of years around...

girlfriends Lee, Bruce George Peter 1973–1979 12 26 Sentenced to involuntary commitment Arsonist responsible for multiple deaths during acts of arson in...

Mental health law General Involuntary treatment Involuntary commitment (by country) Outpatient commitment Voluntary commitment Psychiatry Principles Obligatory...

with six felonies related to the incidents. After almost a year of involuntary commitment and prison, Napolis pleaded guilty and was released on probation...

Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). Mentally ill prisoners may be involuntarily committed to CNYPC. Sex offenders are also civilly confined there. In...

of Involuntary Mental Hospitalisation (AAAIMH), who proposed abolishing all involuntary psychiatric intervention, particularly involuntary commitment, against...