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A Policy Analysis Of The Lanterman Petris Short Act
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Book Synopsis Court of Last Resort by : Carol A. B. Warren
Download or read book Court of Last Resort written by Carol A. B. Warren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of mental health and the law.
Book Synopsis Back to the Asylum by : John Q. La Fond
Download or read book Back to the Asylum written by John Q. La Fond and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "law and order" in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual. This compelling book recounts how and why mental health law is being reshaped to safeguard society rather than mentally ill citizens. The authors, both experts in the field, convincingly demonstrate how rapidly changing American values ignited two very different visions of justice for the mentally ill. They argue that during the "Liberal era"-- from 1960 to 1980-- Americans staunchly supported civil liberties for all, particularly for disadvantaged citizens like the mentally ill. Also, criminal law provided ample opportunities for mentally ill offenders to avoid criminal punishment for their crimes, and restrictive civil commitment laws made it difficult to hospitalize the mentally disabled against their will. During the "Neoconservative era"--from 1980 on-- however, the public demanded new laws as a result of the rise in crime and the increasing number of homeless in communities. These changes make it much more difficult for mentally ill offenders to escape criminal blame and far easier to put disturbed citizens into hospitals against their will. Back to the Asylum accurately describes how this abrupt shift in from protecting individual rights to protecting the community has had a major impact on the mentally ill. It examines these legal changes in their broader social context and offers a provocative analysis of these law reforms. Finally, this timely work forecasts the future of mental health law and policy as America enters the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health by : Teresa L. Scheid
Download or read book A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health written by Teresa L. Scheid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition and treatment of mental disorders and cultural variability. Part II investigates effects of social context, considering class, gender, race and age, and the critical role played by stress, marriage, work and social support. Part III focuses on the organization, delivery and evaluation of mental health services, including the criminalization of mental illness, the challenges posed by HIV, and the importance of stigma. This is a key research reference source that will be useful to both undergraduates and graduate students studying mental health and illness from any number of disciplines.
Book Synopsis The Implementation of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act by : Charles Alvin Lacy
Download or read book The Implementation of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act written by Charles Alvin Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Research Handbook on Mental Health Policy by : Christopher G. Hudson
Download or read book Research Handbook on Mental Health Policy written by Christopher G. Hudson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Handbook is an essential guide to the design and use of research in mental health policy from a global perspective. It focuses on public mental health, as well as quasi-public and private policies in nations with significant private sectors.
Book Synopsis Veteran Senior Citizen Health Care Act of 1979 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Download or read book Veteran Senior Citizen Health Care Act of 1979 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evaluation of Involuntary Care and Treatment Under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act by : Behavioral Assistance Resources Center
Download or read book Evaluation of Involuntary Care and Treatment Under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act written by Behavioral Assistance Resources Center and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Getting It Off The Shelf by : Ernest R House
Download or read book Getting It Off The Shelf written by Ernest R House and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976, the federal government spent over $10 billion on civilian research, development, and demonstration projects. The vast majority of these dollars were spent for applied research-research from which it is reasonable to expect a payoff in implementation, commercialization, or problem solving. In all too many cases, that payoff has not been for
Book Synopsis New Medicalism and the Mental Health Act by : John Fanning
Download or read book New Medicalism and the Mental Health Act written by John Fanning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since the Mental Health Act (MHA) 2007 came into force in England. An amending statute, the Act reformed the MHA 1983 and reshaped the law governing the compulsory care and treatment of people suffering from mental disorders. Primarily driven by concerns about risk, it sought to remove legalistic obstacles to civil commitment and extend the law's coercive reach into the community. At the time of its introduction, the 2007 Act was written off as a retrograde step and a missed opportunity for radical, rights-focused reform. Despite this, little attention has been paid to its impact in the years since. Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 2007 Act, this book offers a timely evaluation of mental health law and policy in England. It argues that the current MHA defies easy categorisation within any of the descriptive models which have customarily narrated the mechanics of civil commitment, namely 'legalism', 'new legalism', and 'medicalism'. It therefore makes the case for a new model – new medicalism – to account for the 2007 Act's enhancement of the discretion of mental health professionals for the express purposes of facilitating the management of situations of risk. In doing so, the book: critically examines the problems inherent in civil commitment frameworks organised around the concept of risk; explores the theoretical foundations of new medicalism; considers the challenges facing proponents of future reform in the era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and, reflects on the 2007 Act's practical impact.
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee by : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Analysis of the Budget Bill of the State of California for the Fiscal Year ... by : California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst
Download or read book Analysis of the Budget Bill of the State of California for the Fiscal Year ... written by California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conservatorship by : Alex V. Barnard
Download or read book Conservatorship written by Alex V. Barnard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of mental illness, to take medication and be placed in a locked facility. At the same time, civil liberties and disability rights groups have seized on cases like that of Britney Spears to argue that conservatorships are inherently abusive. Conservatorship is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees, Alex V. Barnard takes readers to the streets where police encounter homeless people in crisis, the locked wards where people receiving treatment are confined, and the courtrooms where judges decide on conservatorship petitions. As he shows, California’s state government has abdicated authority over this system, leaving the question of who receives compassionate care and who faces coercion dependent on the financial incentives of for-profit facilities, the constraints of underresourced clinicians, and the desperate struggles of families to obtain treatment for their loved ones. This book offers a timely warning: reforms to expand conservatorship will lead to more coercion but little transformative care until government assumes accountability for ensuring the health and dignity of its most vulnerable citizens.
Book Synopsis Analysis of the Budget Bill of the State of California by : California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst
Download or read book Analysis of the Budget Bill of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who Qualifies for Rights? by : Judith Lynn Failer
Download or read book Who Qualifies for Rights? written by Judith Lynn Failer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does a person become disqualified for some or all of the rights associated with full citizenship? Who does qualify for rights? When mental health workers took Joyce Brown from her "home" on a New York City sidewalk and hospitalized her against her will, she defended herself by asserting her rights: to live where she wanted, to speak to the press to deride the city's policy, and to refuse unwanted psychiatric treatment. In theory, as a United States citizen, Brown possessed rights protecting her from governmental intrusion into her personal life. In practice, those rights were curtailed at the time of her civil commitment.Using the case of Joyce Brown as an example, Judith Lynn Failer explores the theoretical, legal, and practical justifications for limiting the rights of people who are involuntarily hospitalized. By looking at the reasons why law and theory say that some people diagnosed with mental illnesses no longer qualify for the full complement of constitutional rights, the author pieces together basic assumptions about who does, and who should, qualify for rights. Failer's analysis is motivated by her concern that people facing involuntary hospitalization stand to lose the most effective means they have of protecting themselves from abuse—their rights. She concludes that there is insufficient guidance for deciding who qualifies for regular rights and full citizenship. Finally, the author calls for the use of flexible standards to determine who should and who does qualify for rights.
Book Synopsis The Effectiveness of Involuntary Outpatient Treatment by : M. Susan Ridgely
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Involuntary Outpatient Treatment written by M. Susan Ridgely and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many states have amended or interpreted their civil commitment statutes to allow for involuntary outpatient treatment.
Book Synopsis Out of the Shadows by : E. Fuller Torrey
Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "reveals how we have failed our mentally ill and offers a viable, provocative blueprint for change."--Jacket.
