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DETENTION UNDER THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT

(5 days ago) WEBThis chapter provides evidence about the key problems relating to detention under a section of the Mental Health Act (HMSO, 2007), including assessment, referral and treatment) (see Section 11.2), and the key requirements for high-quality service user …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK327290/

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Mental Health Treatment While Incarcerated NAMI

(8 days ago) WEBPeople with mental illness deserve help, not handcuffs. Yet people with mental illness are overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. About two in five …

https://www.nami.org/Advocacy/Policy-Priorities/Improving-Health/Mental-Health-Treatment-While-Incarcerated/

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Fact Sheet: Incarceration and Mental Health - Cornell …

(3 days ago) WEB2005: 743 per 100,000. 2009: 749 per 100,000 42. In 2011, approximately 2,300,000 individuals were incarcerated in the United State, a higher incarceration than …

https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/issues-mental-health-policy/fact-sheet-0

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Patients' experiences of assessment and detention under …

(3 days ago) WEBThe search was limited to studies from 1983 as this was when the Mental Health Act 1983, the current legislative framework for compulsory detention and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520528/

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Study finds involuntary psychiatric detentions on the rise

(1 days ago) WEBAn initial evaluation can last several days, but detention can be extended at the discretion of mental health professionals. Cohen and his co–lead author, Gi Lee, a …

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/involuntary-psychiatric-detentions-on-the-rise

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Ethnic variations in compulsory detention under the …

(3 days ago) WEBAlthough evidence from the UK suggests increased detention under the Mental Health Act (MHA) for black populations, 11, 12 less is known about south Asian (including …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6494977/

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H.R.1368 - Mental Health Justice Act of 2021 - Congress.gov

(5 days ago) WEBThe Secretary of Health and Human Service, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and in consultation with the Assistant …

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1368/text

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Detention under the Mental Health Act: balancing rights, …

(8 days ago) WEBMental health law has to balance considerations of both justice, and health and welfare. This paper identifies that increasing rates of detention under the Mental …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01418030122309

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How does involuntary mental-health treatment work, and what …

(6 days ago) WEBTypes of involuntary holds. 5150 or “72-Hour Hold”. The 5150, which is the number of the section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, gives psychiatric …

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-10-04/what-is-involuntary-treatment-what-types-of-holds-exist

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What is the Mental Health Act? - Rethink Mental Illness

(Just Now) WEBThe Mental Health Act says when you can be taken to hospital, kept there, and treated against your wishes. This can only happen if you have a mental disorder that puts you, …

https://rethink.org/advice-and-information/rights-restrictions/mental-health-laws/mental-health-act/

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How to keep up with the Mental Health Act Advances in …

(6 days ago) WEBThe pack contains comprehensive summary information about use of the various parts of the Mental Health Act, including the detention and care of formal patients, consent to …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/how-to-keep-up-with-the-mental-health-act/AFD9E4BCF85C3B4D5E4B32E30DA8FE3F

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Mental Health Act - NHS

(5 days ago) WEBThe Mental Health Act (1983) is the main piece of legislation that covers the assessment, treatment and rights of people with a mental health disorder. You can read the Mental …

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your-rights/mental-health-and-the-law/mental-health-act/

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Why Do Approved Mental Health Professionals Think Detentions …

(4 days ago) WEBThe number of compulsory admissions, the process by which someone is detained in hospital under the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA) due to the risk their …

https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/50/2/616/5717939

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Involuntary Detention and Treatment: Are We Edging Toward a …

(3 days ago) WEBAbstract. Recent challenges to conventional mental health laws concerning involuntary detention and treatment of persons with a mental disorder have led to …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7043056/

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Mental Health Act (easy read) - NHS

(5 days ago) WEBThe Mental Health Act is a law that tells people with a mental health disorder what their rights are and how they can be treated. The term "mental health disorder" is used to …

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your-rights/mental-health-and-the-law/mental-health-act-easy-read/

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Detentions under the Mental Health Act - Ethnicity facts and figures

(8 days ago) WEB1. Main facts and figures. in the year to March 2022, black people were almost 5 times as likely as white people to be detained under the Mental Health Act – …

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/health/mental-health/detentions-under-the-mental-health-act/latest/

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Mental Health in Detention National Immigrant Justice Center

(9 days ago) WEBMental Health in Detention. People with mental illness who are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are frequently subjected to abuse and solitary …

https://immigrantjustice.org/issues/mental-health-detention

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H.R.7780 - Mental Health Matters Act 117th Congress (2021-2022)

(Just Now) WEBMental Health Matters Act. This bill requires certain federal actions to increase access to mental and behavioral health care. Among other provisions, the bill …

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7780

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H.R.7780 - Mental Health Matters Act - Library of Congress

(5 days ago) WEB(a) Interventions that improve social-Emotional and behavioral health of children.— (1) I N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services acting through the Assistant …

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7780/text

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The application of mental health legislation in younger children

(3 days ago) WEBDetention under the Mental Health Act 1983 provides the child with a number of important safeguards, such as the right to appeal against detention. The 2007 amendments to the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706210/

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Kentucky legislators fumbled when it came to helping the state's …

(9 days ago) WEBWhile there were much-needed investments in youth physical and mental health services of those in detention, SB 203, or the Horizons Act, crafted a game …

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2024/05/05/kentucky-general-assembly-fumbled-children-issues/73497572007/

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Repeated Police Mental Health Act Detentions in England and …

(3 days ago) WEB2.1. Study Design. This mixed methods research incorporated three strands of data: police and mental health service information on repeated detentions within the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6926771/

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