Law & psychiatry: Ambivalence codified: California's new outpatient commitment statute

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-28

  Appelbaum, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LAW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHIATRIST; SHORT SURVEY; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

AMBULATORY CARE; CALIFORNIA; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0037220706     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.1.26     Document Type: Short Survey

References (8)

1. California Welfare and Institutions Code, section 5000 et seq
2. Tarasoff Regents of the University of California, 551 P.2d 334 (Cal 1976)
3. Ridgely MS, Borum B, Petrila J: The Effectiveness of Involuntary Outpatient Treatment: Empirical Evidence and the Experience of Eight States. Santa Monica, Calif, Rand, 2001
4. Why is it called Laura's Law? [editorial]. San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2002
5. California Statutes of 2002, chapter 1017
6. Swartz MS, Swanson JW, Wagner HR, et al: Can involuntary outpatient commitment reduce hospital recidivism? Findings from a randomized trial with severely mentally ill individuals. American Journal of Psychiatry 156:1968-1975, 1999
7. New York Mental Hygiene Law, section 9.60
8. Appelbaum PS: Thinking carefully about outpatient commitment. Psychiatric Services 52:347-350, 2001