Elyn R Saks
Elyn R Saks
This article offers a novel approach to outpatient commitment (OPC). After distinguishing 4 varieties of OPC, the article shows how 3 are easy to justify, whereas "preventive outpatient commitment" (POC) requires more careful scrutiny. The ...
Endorsement of personal benefit of outpatient commitment among persons with severe mental illness [0.03%]
重性精神疾病患者门诊约束的个人益处认可度研究
Marvin S Swartz,Jeffrey W Swanson,John Monahan
Marvin S Swartz
This study examines whether individuals who experienced involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) attribute benefit to this intervention. It was found that the majority of experimental subjects who underwent a period of OPC did not personally...
Outpatient civil commitment: a dangerous charade or a component of a comprehensive institution of civil commitment? [0.03%]
门诊强迫住院:一种危险的虚假行为还是全面住院强迫制度的一个组成部分?
Robert F Schopp
Robert F Schopp
This article examines three criticisms frequently directed toward preventive commitment as one form of outpatient commitment. These criticisms contend that preventive commitment (a) abandons the dangerousness criteria for civil commitmnet, ...
Outpatient commitment: the state of empirical research on its outcomes [0.03%]
门诊留院医学观察:关于其成效的经验研究之现状
Virginia Aldige Hiday
Virginia Aldige Hiday
This article briefly describes the historical conditions in the origin and development of outpatient commitment that framed the discourse on its merits and the empirical studies on its outcomes. It divides those empirical studies into two s...
Adolescents and adjustment to abortion: are minors at greater risk? [0.03%]
青少年与堕胎后的适应问题:未成年人面临更大的风险吗?
W J Quinton,B Major,C Richards
W J Quinton
The authors tested the Supreme Court's assumption that minors are particularly susceptible to psychological distress following abortion. The responses of 38 minors (age < 18 years) were compared with those of 402 adults, 1 month and 2 years...
Factors to consider before participating in a hastened death: issues for medical professionals [0.03%]
参与帮助患者加速死亡前需要考虑的因素——医疗工作者需注意的问题
S Jamison
S Jamison
An emerging problem that health professionals face in working with terminally ill patients is how to respond to the concerns and conflicts that emerge near the end of life. Most important are those that challenge the traditional healing, ca...
Bureaucratizing suicide [0.03%]
官僚化的自杀事件
S J Youngner
S J Youngner
Although helpful in many ways, the Guidelines for Assessing Mental Capacity and Impaired Judgment fall short in 3 areas. First, the term capacity is poorly defined and explicated. Second, the inevitable role of the evaluator's own values is...
Misguided guidelines [0.03%]
误导性的指导意见
R A Burt
R A Burt
The proposed guidelines would require detailed, probing inquiry into motivation for choosing assisted suicide. This is an appropriate requirement in principle. In practice, it will be virtually impossible to carry out this inquiry within li...
Anticipatory planning for research participants with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia [0.03%]
精神分裂症等精神病患者的研究参与者前瞻性计划制定
P Backlar
P Backlar
Current and coincident biomedical advances make this an opportune time to encourage research with individuals who have fluctuating periods of incapacity caused by psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Effecting research with this heteroge...
M B Kapp
M B Kapp
Decisions about admitting a mentally incapacitated person to a nursing home raise a variety of difficult legal, ethical, and public policy issues. A strategy for anticipating and addressing this contingency prospectively, by encouraging exe...