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  2. Addington v. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (1979), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that set the standard for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons for psychiatric treatment from the usual civil burden of proof of "preponderance of the evidence" to "clear and convincing evidence".

  3. Wayne Scott Unit - Wikipedia

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    The Wayne Scott Unit (J4), formerly known as the Beauford H. Jester IV Unit, is a psychiatric facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Richmond. It is a part of the Jester State Prison Farm property and it is located on U.S. Highway 90A. [1]

  4. Involuntary commitment - Wikipedia

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    There are instances in which mental health professionals have wrongfully deemed individuals to have been displaying the symptoms of a mental disorder, and committed the individual for treatment in a psychiatric hospital upon such grounds. Claims of wrongful commitment are a common theme in the anti-psychiatry movement. [43] [44] [45]

  5. Barefoot v. Estelle - Wikipedia

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    Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court case. [1] The Court ruled on the admissibility of clinical opinions given by two psychiatrists hired by the prosecution in answer to hypothetical questions regarding the defendant's future dangerousness and the likelihood that he would present a continuing threat to society in this Texas death penalty case.

  6. Involuntary commitment by country - Wikipedia

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    Under the amended Mental Health Act 2007, which came into force in November 2008 to be detained under Section 3 for treatment, appropriate treatment must be available in the place of detention. Supervised Community treatment orders signifies that people can be discharged to the community on a conditional basis, remaining liable to recall to ...

  7. Texas Medication Algorithm Project - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) [1] is a decision-tree medical algorithm, the design of which was based on the expert opinions of mental health specialists.It has provided and rolled out a set of psychiatric management guidelines for doctors treating certain mental disorders within Texas' publicly funded mental health care system, along with manuals relating to each of them The ...

  8. Treatment of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Mental health services may be based in hospitals, clinics or the community. Often an individual may engage in different treatment modalities and use various mental health services. These may be under case management (sometimes referred to as "service coordination"), use inpatient or day treatment.

  9. Therapeutic community - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest is the change in treatment of institutionalised patients in the late 18th century, continuing throughout the 19th century. [2] A major contributor to this change is Philippe Pinel, a French physician who advocated for a more humane treatment of psychiatric patients. [2]