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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.
Commitment proceedings often follow a period of emergency hospitalization, during which an individual with acute psychiatric symptoms is confined for a relatively short duration (e.g. 72 hours) in a treatment facility for evaluation and stabilization by mental health professionals who may then determine whether further civil commitment is ...
A judge will review each petition and may order a mental health assessment and a care team to develop a treatment plan for the individual. The participants are provided legal counsel, mental ...
Specific jurisdictions' provisions for a temporary detention order for the purpose of mental-health evaluation and possible further voluntary or involuntary commitment: United States: California: 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold) and Laura's Law (providing for court-ordered outpatient treatment)
The pre-1984 law did not have the same stringent 30- and 45-day time limits for examinations, but merely provided that "For the purpose of the examination the court may order the accused committed for such reasonable period as the court may determine to a suitable hospital or other facility to be designated by the court." The law provided that ...
An alternative mental health court to compel treatment for people with severe mental illness has received more than 100 petitions since launching in seven California counties in October, state ...
The time for talk and legal wrangling are over. The continued failure of Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services to provide jail inmates with court-ordered mental health treatment ...
In order to be admitted to Kendra's Law, individuals must meet the following criteria established in Section 9.60 of NYS Mental Health Law. [15] A patient may be ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that: the patient is eighteen years of age or older; and