Mentally Ill Persons - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Combat veterans, mental health issues, and the death penalty: addressing the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

29 Apr 2009 More than 1.5 million Americans have participated in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past seven years. Some of these veterans have subsequently committed capital crimes and found themselves in our nation's criminal justice system. ... Read more...

Hospital orders for offenders with mental illnesses: an appropriate diversionary option?

30 Jan 2009 Hospital orders provide an option for sentencing judges to divert offenders with mental illnesses away from the criminal justice system and into the civil commitment system for treatment purposes. Such an option exists in Victoria, Tasmania and at a ... Read more...

[Mentally ill and dangerous: civil commitment or internment? The Belgian judicial framework]

30 Dec 2008 There are two important Belgian laws referring to psychiatric disturbances that may prove dangerous. The Civil Code includes the law relating to the protection of the mentally ill person, dated 26th June 1990, better known as the law of civil ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mentally Ill Persons - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Conclusion: mental health in the mainstream of public policy. 30 Oct 2009
• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• [Self help groups, a first assessment] 30 Aug 2009
• Combat veterans, mental health issues, and the death penalty: addressing the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. 29 Apr 2009
• Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
• Hospital orders for offenders with mental illnesses: an appropriate diversionary option? 30 Jan 2009
• The Code of Practice and the ambiguities of 'guidance'. 30 Dec 2008
• [Mentally ill and dangerous: civil commitment or internment? The Belgian judicial framework] 30 Dec 2008
• Did the introduction of 'dangerousness' and 'risk of harm' criteria in mental health laws increase the incidence of suicide in the United States of America? 17 Dec 2008
• The danger of dangerousness: why we must remove the dangerousness criterion from our mental health acts. 29 Nov 2008
• Coerced medication in psychiatric inpatient care: literature review. 29 Nov 2008
• Furry friends. 29 Nov 2008
• An analysis of patient rights violations in psychiatric hospitals in Japan after the enactment of the Mental Health Act of 1987. 29 Nov 2008
• Workforce. Benefit from a help hand. 7 Oct 2008
• Mental illness and ethnicity - being a stateless person (apatride). 30 Aug 2008
• Coercion in psychiatry. 30 Aug 2008
• The vulnerable adult in police custody: lessons learned from the case of R v Paul James Aspinall. 29 Jun 2008
• Privilege in the Federal Courts: should there be a "dangerous patient exception"? 29 Jun 2008
• Smoking, mental health, and human rights: a UK judgment. 19 Jun 2008
• The Slovenian Mental Health Act de lege ferenda. 30 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Mentally Ill Persons'

Definition: Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.

Descriptor UI: D028642

Alternative terms: Mentally Ill Persons; Mentally Ill Person; Person, Mentally Ill; Persons, Mentally Ill; Mentally Ill; Ill, Mentally; Mental Patients;

Related Mesh Headings: Mental Disorders; Commitment of Mentally Ill;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.150.725;

History Note: 2002