Essay On Involuntary Admission

There were four big issues ( diagnosis, stigma, insurance and involuntary admission) during my mother’s 35+ years of mental health issues. The first was achieving a professional diagnosis of her mental condition and the second was the stigma of mental health. The diagnosis for mental health illness are statistically derived from a scoring system on a list of enumerated symptoms for each diagnosis as a conglomeration or array of variety of psychological functions such as memory, learning, perception, consciousness, emotions, thought, reasoning, imagination and problem solving and until recently only the patient was permitted to participate in the evaluation not friends or family (Thirunavukarasu, 2011). Since my family was able to give testimonies as to her manic-psychosis episodes she was finally diagnosed. However, the system that was …show more content…
The regulations, requirements and fragmentation between state, ambulatory/acute facilities, medical professionals and mental health facilities makes the process almost impossible to achieve involuntary admission for mental health evaluation. Prior to an mental health involuntary admission in Tennessee someone must obtain a Certificate of Need required for a probable cause hearing form 33-6-421 by a licensed professional (physician, psychologist, social worker, therapist, etc) to certify based on their professional opinion and examination the person subject to involuntary care treatment under Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 5, Tenn Code Ann has a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance that requires involuntary admission to protect them or others from harm (Tennessee Code, n.d., 2015). American society and laws emphasize civil liberties of individuals but due to these laws institutions, hospitals and professionals are reluctant to provide treatment of the mentally ill without the patient’s informed consent (La Fond,