Psychiatric symptoms and mental health court engagement

Caffeine, mental health, and psychiatric disorders.

Caffeine intake is so common that its pharmacological effects on the mind are undervalued. Since it is so readily available, individuals can adjust their own dose, time of administration and dose intervals of caffeine, according to the perceived benefits and side effects of each dose. This review focuses on human studies of caffeine in subjects with and without psychiatric disorders. Besides th...

Mental health and psychiatric research in Brazil.

September 11 on suicide and homicide in September 11 on suicide and homicide in England and Wales. He argues that when England and Wales. He argues that when tackling violence in our society, the current tackling violence in our society, the current Government may plan services on the basis Government may plan services on the basis of information that is misleading and flawed. of information th...

Psychiatric classification, stigma, and mental health.

Defendants with intellectual disabilities and mental health diagnoses: faring in a mental health court.

BACKGROUND Begun in the late 1990s, mental health courts are specialty criminal courts developed to address the needs of persons with mental illness. METHODS As many persons with intellectual disabilities (IDs) may overlap in the mental health court system, we used mental health court records to examine the phenomenology and outcomes of 224 defendants with and without co-occurring IDs in the ...

Mental health courts and the lesson learned in juvenile court.

Justice Fortas in this quotation was addressing the extent of procedural due process provided in juvenile proceedings in 1966. Well-meaning members of the criminal justice system had developed a court process intent on helping juveniles, rather than punishing them as criminal offenders. Since there was no criminal adjudication, and anonymity was generally assured, it was believed that the nicet...