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Only a mental health professional and the courts can commit a person to a mental health institution. If you feel that your spouse needs to be committed the best thing to do is to make them an appointment with a mental health professional.
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∙ 12y agoThis process can vary from county to county and state to state, as well as the situation. You should check with an emergency room or a mental health professional in your area for the process in your location. Typically, however, if the person is agreeable to be evaluated, you would take them to an emergency room (or call for ambulance transport due to potential liability). Once there, you would complete a petition for psychiatric evaluation. The hospital psychiatrist would then evaluate the individual for possible admission to a psychiatric ward or hospital and, if they meet certain criteria the psychiatrist will complete a certification. Only a doctor can certify a person for involuntary admission and observation. If, however, the person is not willing, you may first need to request an involuntary transport order. This is done at your local probate court and is rather involved, including testifying in front of a judge on the same day of the request.
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∙ 13y agoFirst things first. If you are this concerned about your friend, then immediate safety has to be your priority. For example if your friend has threatened suicide, you need to get help for your friend immediately, even if that means contacting your friend's family, or even calling the police. If that is not the issue, then the laws are different in different places. Your best option is to contact your friend's physician, or your own, immediately and ask for guidance. You could call local hospitals or mental health centers and ask if emergency mental health assessments are offered there. They can send you to the right hospital. When you find the right place, get your friend there and they will take it from there.
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∙ 15y agoMental Inquest Warrant, 48-72 hours committed to be reviewed. Get it from sheriff office.
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∙ 13y agoCommitting a crime.Then a judge orders them to be confined there.My Mother was schizophrenic.Take your meds always.
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Who was the U.S. reformer who led a lifelong crusade to reform barbarous conditions in mental institutions?
Dorothea Dix was the U.S. reformer who led a lifelong crusade to reform barbarous conditions in mental institutions.
Why are insane people in mental hospitals?
Laws and conventions of society tell us that such people are in those institutions to keep them from harming themselves or others.
Use the word institution in a sentence?
"People with mental illness are rarely sent to institutions anymore." "The school is a brilliant instituation."
Does the us still have mental institutions?
Yes they do
What are the advantages of eugenics movement?
It can lead to a healthier, more intellegent and a longer lived population with less people on disability and in mental institutions.
What other type of facilities are there for people who are a threat to others or themselves?
Psychological units, mental institutions, jail and 6ft under the ground.
Who was responsible for the reforms in prisons and mental institutions?
Dorothea Dix
Do you have to kill yourself when you are in an asylum?
No, suicide is not the purpose of mental institutions.
How many down syndrome people were killed in the holocaust?
Between 1939 and 1941, 80,000 to 100,000 mentally ill adults in institutions were killed; 5,000 children in institutions; and 1,000 Jews in institutions. Outside the mental health institutions, the figures are estimated as 20,000 (according to Dr. Georg Renno, the deputy director of Schloss Hartheim, one of the euthanasia centers) or 400,000 (according to Frank Zeireis, the commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp). Another 300,000 were forcibly sterilized. Overall it has been estimated that over 200,000 individuals with mental disorders of all kinds were put to death
Are Mental Hospitals the same as Concentration Camps?
No, concentration camps was where the Germans put the Jewish people and killed them, but mental hospitals are where people with mental illness go that can't live in normal society. Comparing them is an insult to all Jewish people and everyone who loved in the camps.
How do I find a list of mental health institutions in California that were closed by Reagan?
Maybe a textbook!!!
What is civilian non institutionalized population?
It is non-military, people who are not in prisons, jails, mental institutions, hospitals, schools, etc., that if over the age of 16 are eligible for the work force.
