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Deinstitutionalization: Additional Unforeseen Problems |
-Metropolitan homeless shelters became makeshiftalternatives to mental hospitals -CMHCs understaffed and underfunded, even more soas national priorities shifted in the 1980s -Many patients not ready for community living |
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Deinstitutionalization: Additional Unforeseen Problems |
-By the 1980s, because many were not prepared forurban life on the streets, -Homelessness in urban areas increased -Street crime and the death rate ofdeinstitutionalized homeless increased -Increase in the number of mentally ill in theprisons |
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Deinstitutionalization: Controversy |
“freeing” previously confined persons or“abandonment” of severely disturbed patients to a very harsh existence? |
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(Deinstitutionalization) Perhaps due to inadequate mental health servicesin the community--> |
There is some evidence that inpatientpsychiatric hospitalization may be on the rise in both the U.S. and U.K. |
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Civil Commitment |
Q- When can someone be involuntarily committedto a hospital? A- When they pose a threat to self and/or othersor when they are unable to care for themselves |
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Civil Commitment (to be committed part 1) |
Being mentally ill is NOT grounds forinvoluntary commitment -To be committed, an individual must be -Dangerous to themselves or others and/or -Incapable of providing for their basic physicalneeds and/or -Unable to make responsible decisions abouthospitalization and -In need of treatment or care in a hospital |
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Civil Commitment (to be committed part 2) |
-Typically, a petition is filed with thecourt -Judge appoints 2 examiners to evaluate the“proposed patient” -Proposed patient gets examined before thecommitment hearing -If the person is them committed by a judge, thehospital must then report back to the court (e.g., within 60 days ) on whetherthe person needs to be confined longer - Patient has right to due process, includingrepresentation by legal counsel |
