Commentary: A major advance in the laws pertaining to community treatment for persons with severe mental illness

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-153

  Richard Lamb, H ^a   Weinberger, Linda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 12944257420     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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