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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Involuntary commitment"”.
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Bridging the Gap: An Evaluation of Involuntary Commitment Personal Narratives and Academic Literature
Involuntary commitment has an extensive history in the United States. The practice requires forcibly admitting an individual with a mental health disorder into an inpatient treatment facility on the grounds that the individual poses a significant threat of danger to him/herself or others. …
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American Ignominy: The Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
… swell. It is time to strongly consider using the involuntary commitment for severe cases of substance abuse if the patient is unwilling to undergo rehabilitation. Refusing to wait for the federal government to act, cities and states around the nation have begun to experiment with novel solutions …
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In the facets of powerlessness: agency as an essential aspect of the self
… had experienced psychosis at the time of their involuntary commitment onto a psychiatric in-patient ward. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed to investigate the data. The findings comprise of four superordinate themes: A …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
… my research examines the reasons for black commitments to CLA within the context of white re-subjugation of the black population in order to emphasize the centrality of social control to black mental health care in the Post Emancipation era.