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Home / Society / Issues / Health / Mental Health / Involuntary Commitment
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- Advance Directives - Information on how persons who have suffered from brain disorder or mental illness can grant durable power of attorney for health care, to specify or prohibit types of treatments.
www.wcmhar.com/AdvanceDirective
- How to Avoid Mental Health Conservatorship? - Explaining the Lanterman Petris Short act, how it can be used to put persons under conservatorship, and how to avoid this.
www.namiscc.org/newsletters/July01/conservatorship.htm
- Involuntary Outpatient Commitment - It is perhaps the biggest challenge to liberty and freedom that people diagnosed with mental illnesses face today.
www.madnation.org/news/IOC
- Psychiatric Advance Directive - If you are concerned that you may be subject to involuntary psychiatric commitment or treatment at some future time, you can prepare a legal document in advance to express your choices about treatment.
www.bazelon.org/advdir.html
- The Case of Spencer Day - His story sheds new light on causes of violence and crime in our society.
violence.freedommag.org/page10.htm
- TRI Online! Mental Health Issues - Several essays and links about the controversy over Outpatient Commitment.
www.taconicresources.net/mentalhlth.htm
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