Commitment of Mentally Ill
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Treatment by psychiatric acute teams - as an alternative to admission in psychiatric acute wards - has been introduced in Norway, based on positive experience in other countries. The effect of establishing such acute teams in Norway has ... Read more...

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

[The phenomena of repeated psychiatric hospitalizations among patients with mental retardation]

30 Aug 2009 Mental retardation is common phenomena in general society. Mentally impaired patients have weaker adaptive mechanisms in comparison with general society and more of ten suffer from psychiatric disorders. The aim of nowadays functioning environmental ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Commitment of Mentally Ill'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• [The phenomena of repeated psychiatric hospitalizations among patients with mental retardation] 30 Aug 2009
• New developments in preventive detention in Germany. 30 Aug 2009
• Forced treatment of anorexic patients: part 2. 30 Aug 2009
• Mental health laws for those "compliant" with treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• Duly Authorized Officers' practices under mental health law in New Zealand: Are nurses meeting the requirements of the law? 30 Jul 2009
• Community outcomes of mentally disordered homicide offenders in Victoria. 30 Jul 2009
• [Compulsory hospital admission - coercive measures in medical care] 30 Jul 2009
• Current situation and future tasks for psychiatric services in Japanese prisons. 30 Jul 2009
• Widening the circle: making Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings accessible in Indigenous, rural and remote settings. 30 Jul 2009
• Community treatment orders and competence to consent. 30 Jul 2009
• [Penrose's law: reality or fiction? Mental health system and the size of prison population - international overview] 10 Jul 2009
• The effects of crisis plans for patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders: a randomised controlled trial. 7 Jul 2009
• [Emergency pathologies] 29 Jun 2009
• Emergency compulsory admissions in the Netherlands: fluctuating patterns in Rotterdam, 1929-2005. 30 May 2009
• Comparing staff and client perceptions of needs in a British single-sex medium secure unit. 30 May 2009
• [New legislation on involuntary commitment: one law or two?] 30 May 2009
• [Antiandrogenic pharmacotherapy of sexual offenders and home leave steps in the forensic psychiatric hospital Berlin] 10 May 2009
• [Psychiatric rehabilitation in Poland. Polish literature review from 1990-2007] 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Commitment of Mentally Ill'

Definition: Legal process required for the institutionalization of a patient with severe mental problems.

Descriptor UI: D003134

Alternative terms: Commitment of Mentally Ill; Mentally Ill Commitment; Mentally Ill Commitments; Involuntary Commitment; Commitment, Involuntary; Commitments, Involuntary; Involuntary Commitments; Outpatient Commitment; Commitment, Outpatient; Commitments, Outpatient; Outpatient Commitments; Duration of Commitment; Commitment Duration; Commitment Durations;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Advocacy; Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: F04.096.544.335.200; N03.706.535.351.200;

History Note: 83(75); was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1975-82

Technical Notes: do not coord with HOSPITALIZATION since this is inherent in the definition