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The Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, [1] commonly known as the "Baker Act," allows for a) short-term, inpatient voluntary and involuntary examination, b) inpatient voluntary and involuntary admission of an individual for assessment and treatment of a mental illness, and c) involuntary outpatient treatment for mental illness.
Emmett Foley is an American hero of the Korean War who attempts to commit suicide, first by provoking local police and then by shooting himself in the chest. After his recovery, he is sent to the Florida State Hospital, an institution in Chattahoochee, Florida, where he fights against doctors and staff who are terrorizing and torturing their patients.
1971 – The Florida Mental Health Act of 1971 (Florida Statute 394.451–394.47891 [73] (2009 rev.)), commonly known as the "Baker Act," allows the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in Florida. The Baker Act allows for involuntary examination (what some call emergency or involuntary commitment). It can be ...
A dangerous mix of patients. State mental hospitals accept residents from both civil and criminal courts. Under Florida’s involuntary commitment law, called the Baker Act, a person can be ...
From Silver Linings Playbook and Girl, Interrupted to Iron Man 3 and Observe & Report, here are 18 of the best movies you can watch about mental illness.
President John F. Kennedy signing the act. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA) (also known as the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, Mental Retardation Facilities and Construction Act, Public Law 88-164, or the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963) was an act to provide ...
The movie, rightly considered a classic, finds a criminal who pleaded insanity (Jack Nicholson) in a mental asylum, helping to lead his fellow patients in an uprising against the abusive nurse ...
She is the namesake of the Baker Act, also known as the Florida Mental Health Act. [1] Baker was on Florida Governor LeRoy Collins's Special Constitutional Advisory Committee (SPAC) in 1958 as a prominent Dade County representative of the League of Women Voters. Many in Florida [weasel words] wanted to finally revise the old Florida ...