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Outpatient commitment—also called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) or community treatment orders (CTO)—refers to a civil court procedure wherein a legal process orders an individual diagnosed with a severe mental disorder to adhere to an outpatient treatment plan designed to prevent further deterioration or recurrence that is harmful to themselves or others.
A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders. This broad category was developed as a name for community personnel who worked in the new community mental health agencies begun in the ...
An essential component of mental health court programs for protection of the public is a dynamic risk management process that involves court supervised case management with interactive court review and assessment. As in other problem-solving courts, the judge in a mental health court plays a larger role than a judge in a conventional court ...
Jul. 19—A pair of behavioral health programs funded during Thursday's mad-dash legislative session could launch in the judicial district that includes Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba ...
One happy beagle is bundling up and spending a warm and cozy Christmas with his new family this holiday season. Meet Copper, an 8-year-old beagle who was recently adopted by PETA staffers ...
In 2003, Vanguard established Abrazo Health Care as its Arizona subsidiary. In 2013, Vanguard was acquired by Tenet Healthcare. [4] In early 2018 Valleywise Health purchased Maryvale from Abrazo and plans were approved to revive the facility as a behavioral health hospital and full-service emergency department.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled last week that the law was constitutional. ByteDance on Monday asked the D.C. Circuit to put the law on hold pending Supreme Court review.
In February 2008, Indiana, Arizona, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oklahoma and other states now have legislation pending to create licensure for behavior analysts. Pennsylvania was the first state in 2008 to license "behavior specialists" to cover behavior analysts. Arizona, less than three weeks later, became the first state to license "behavior ...