INTRODUCTION .................................. 741 I. INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION: HISTORY AND POLICY ....................... 748 A. Civil Commitment Procedures .................... 748 B. Pre-1980s ............................... 749 C. 1980s and 1990s .......................... 752 II. COMMUNITY-BASED TREATMENT AND THE POLICY ARGUMENTS FAVORING IT .................... 759...

Increasing evidence exists that suggests associations between mental illness, homelessness, and criminal activity and arrest. This article describes a program for identifying and providing treatment and housing for homeless mentally ill veterans detained at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Preliminary data are provided describing characteristics of the veterans assessed in the jail, as well as ...

deterred on this account from reading this remarkable book which gives an entertaining picture of American mental hospital practice. The style is tortuous and ponderous. When the authors want to say there are both male and female patients they write. "Patient status was no respecter of sex" and describe somebody who volunteered to play the accordion thus, "One visitor who played the accordion d...

On the basis of structured interviews with 146 parents, this study describes why and when parents of acutely ill children seek the out-of-hours service, what actions they might have taken beforehand, and their expectations as to the outcome of the consultation. A total of 46% of the parents did not consider their child's condition to be serious, but 12% throught that their child was very ill. P...

Although decisional incapacity can be caused by various medical conditions, incapacity due to mental illness is often singled out for scrutiny in research ethics policy debates. We assessed whether there is a general discriminatory perception of mental illness research and, if so, aimed to characterize the nature of that perception. We conducted an experimental, randomized Internet survey of th...

In mapping social networks, investigators have confronted the following choices in the selection of an instrument to assess networks: (1) qualitative versus quantitative approaches; (2) subjective versus objective criteria; (3) synchronic versus diachronic descriptions. Evolving out of fieldwork with discharged mental patients, the Network Analysis Profile was designed to resolve these methodol...

This article reviews the recent literature documenting changes that have taken place in the management and treatment of insanity defense acquittees with the development of conditional release and monitored community treatment. The review demonstrates that conditional release is particularly important as a means of balancing the protection of society with the treatment of insanity defense acquit...