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California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5325.2: Patients' Rights; American Psychiatric Association, Definition of Crisis Behavior & A Mental Disorder by DSM-IV (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of APA), & Crisis Management; California Code of Regulations (C.C.R.), Title 9 & Title 22, Licensed psychiatric hospitals in California are ...
5150 is the number of the section of California's Welfare and Institutions Code which allows a person with a mental challenge to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization.
The Codes form an important part of California law. However, they must be read in combination with the federal and state constitutions, federal and state case law, and the California Code of Regulations, in order to understand how they are actually interpreted and enforced in court.
Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened ...
California: 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold) and Laura's Law (providing for court-ordered outpatient treatment) Lanterman–Petris–Short Act, codifying the conditions for and of involuntary commitment in California; Florida: Baker Act and Marchman Act
Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. [1] While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social ...
In 2002, voters of California passed a law mandating that HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million people in California, offer more timely access to medical care. Now the California Department of ...
Current California law forbids the state's medical board from considering victim statements in decision making. Legislation could reform the process. Patients are barred from doctor disciplinary ...