M G Ory,T F Williams
M G Ory
Rehabilitation to restore and maintain functioning in older people is relatively new. Traditionally, ageist prejudices and the medical preoccupation with cure have led to neglect of chronic disabilities in older people. With a focus on an a...
J Rodin
J Rodin
A substantial amount of research has demonstrated that the sense of control is associated with numerous positive outcomes, including good health. Many aspects of the personal and social conditions of old age influence the control-health rel...
J F McTigue
J F McTigue
Before the end of 1988, 300,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are expected to have been reported worldwide since 1981. Three epidemiological patterns have emerged. One, in the Americas and Europe, is where transmission...
Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board: a comprehension system for managing insanity acquittees [0.03%]
俄勒冈州的精神病安全审查委员会：管理无刑事责任能力人员的一个全面体系
J L Rogers,J D Bloom,S M Manson
J L Rogers
The insanity defense is a particularly controversial aspect of the interaction between law and mental health. During the past decade, many states have revised or abolished their insanity defenses. Oregon, however, chose in 1974 to retain it...
W J Bowers,D J Givelber,C L Blitch
W J Bowers
The Tarasoff decisions of the California Supreme Court in 1974 and 1976 held that psychotherapists could be held liable for failing to protect the victims of their potentially violent patients. Our survey of psychiatrists, psychologists, an...
S P Segal,M A Watson,L S Nelson
S P Segal
A reliable prototype index, Three Ratings of Involuntary Admissibility (TRIAD), was developed to reflect the way psychiatric emergency room clinicians apply legal criteria for involuntary commitment. The interrater reliability coefficients-...
Legal intervention in civil commitment: the impact of broadened commitment criteria [0.03%]
法律在民事承诺中的介入：扩大承诺标准的影响分析
M L Durham,G L Pierce
M L Durham
Recent legal changes in Washington State have broadened the grave-disability criterion for civil commitment of the mentally ill. Analysis of data from state mental hospitals and from records of commitment authorities in Washington's two lar...
M J Mills
M J Mills
This article discusses historical themes that led to the civil commitment reforms of the sixties and seventies. The changes in the substantive criteria for commitment are analyzed and critiqued. The author believes that the present criteria...
L Ojesjö
L Ojesjö
The major policies and practices with regard to the civil and criminal commitment of the mentally ill in the Scandinavian countries during the 1970s and 1980s are described and discussed. Deinstitutionalization, community work, and outpatie...
C A Kerr,J A Roth
C A Kerr
This is a study of the public facilities to which mentally disordered offenders are committed or transferred so that they may be securely confined while simultaneously participating in programs designed for treatment of their mental disorde...