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Patient autonomy and criminal law
Published in Paweł Daniluk, Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law, 2023
The criminal must meet certain characteristics. It is a person who has the authority to place an individual in a mental hospital (an emergency psychiatrist, a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital, a psychiatrist who is a member of the commission that gives a report for the court). A judge who issued an illegal decision on placement in a mental hospital is subject to criminal liability under Art. 305 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal sentencing). Meanwhile, there is another opinion in the legal literature that admits the criminal liability of a relative, a legal representative or a neighbour.21 Such a position is debatable. The main factor of such a crime is the power of placement in a mental hospital. It is up to the psychiatrist to decide whether to put a person in a mental hospital voluntarily or involuntarily. According to Art. 20, Part 2 of the Federal Law on Psychiatric Care and Guarantees of Citizens' Rights during Its Provision, the diagnosis of mental illness and the provision of psychiatric care is the right of the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist makes a decision and approves the patient's placement in a mental hospital; and then the judge decides whether to dismiss or approve such action. Other persons are considered as accomplices (organiser, instigator or abettor).
Medication management system in several care homes in Surabaya
Published in Elida Zairina, Junaidi Khotib, Chrismawan Ardianto, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Charles D. Sands, Timothy E. Welty, Unity in Diversity and the Standardisation of Clinical Pharmacy Services, 2017
G.N.V. Achmad, G. Nugraheni, W. Utami, S. Hardiyanti, S. Danutri, D.K. Lestari, Muhliseh, A.T. Mahardika
There were 4.3% of residents with dementia. Specialized knowledge and skills are necessary to deal with dementia patients. Caregiver should be trained enough to provide appropriate care for residents with dementia. Another special health condition of residents that needs debriefing skills was mental disorder (1.4%). The existence of mental disorder patients at care home was quite alarming, because they required special facilities and treatment for their mental condition. Where possible, the elderly with mental disorder was proposed to be placed in a mental hospital.
Mental health
Published in Liam J. Donaldson, Paul D. Rutter, Donaldsons' Essential Public Health, 2017
Liam J. Donaldson, Paul D. Rutter
The design of mental health services and the component parts of the system of care vary greatly around the world. Western countries have developed models of care built on specialist care and with heavy emphasis on medication. Historically, many mental disorders were treated in hospitals, in effect asylums. In Britain, the mental hospital, a closed community, often situated in a remote locality, served a predominantly custodial role, with little attempt to treat mental illness or forge links with the wider world. The discovery of psychotropic drugs helped to support a reduction of psychiatric hospital inpatient admissions. The modern era of policy on care of those with serious mental illness in Britain can be traced back to the famous speech by Enoch Powell in the 1960s when, as minister for health, he declared that the ‘water tower’ hospitals for those with mental illness had had their day and should be replaced with modern forms of local comprehensive care.
States of Mind with Respect to Attachment: a comparative study between women who killed their children and mothers diagnosed with post-partum depression
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Nicoletta Giacchetti, Guido Maria Lattanzi, Franca Aceti, Nicola Vanacore, Riccardo Williams
Nine women (47.4%) were reported as having had at least one interaction with a mental health specialist (psychologist or psychiatrist) in the past, and five (26.3%) were reported as having had a previous admission to a mental Hospital. Sixteen women (84.2%) had a family history of psychiatric illness: the most frequently reported disorders were mood disorders among the patients’ mothers (47.3%) and alcoholism among the patients’ fathers (31.5%). With regard to traumatic and stressful life events, eight women (42.1%) reported serious bereavements, eight (42.1%) had conflicts with their family of origin, seven (36.8%) presented conflicts with their partner, six (31.6%) had to overcome the illness of a family member and one woman (5.3%) had lost her job on the day before the murder.
The assessment of factors associated with patient satisfaction in evaluation of mental health care center
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Natalija Berzina, Eva Petrošina, Maris Taube
One of the greatest limitations in this study was the low response rate. According to literature, usual response rates for such studies are 60–90% [44], whereas in our study, the response rate was a little over 50%. This limitation could be managed by more precise control over the medical personnel offering the questionnaire to the patients. It is important to mention that patient involvement and the associated factors with it could influence the response rates, and that is why it is necessary to study these factors. This could be potentially managed by stressing the importance of this survey in the cover letter, also positive reinforcement could improve response rates [24]. No causal relationships could be identified due to a cross-sectional study design; therefore, longitudinal studies are required in studied population. The data generalization cannot be done in this study because the participants were patients from one mental hospital in the capital city, as well as low response rates in regional hospitals may indicate there may be certain factors associated exactly with lower response in the regions, which defines future necessity to assess regional hospital patients’ involvement more careful.
“If We Can Feel Like We Have Purpose and We Belong” - Exploring the Experiences of Drug-Involved Individuals in a Rural Jail
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2020
John M. Keesler, Emily Brault, Joshua Powell, Helen Johnston
Although the criminal justice system has been referred to as the “de facto mental hospital” (Subramanian, Delaney, Roberts, Fishman, & McGarry, 2015, p. 11), facilities within the system frequently fail to identify and treat inmates’ corresponding needs. Further, for those in jails where periods of incarceration are often brief (e.g. less than 30 days), brief stays do not lend to engagement in rehabilitation and treatment programs as individuals may enter or leave the jail before or after a program starts (Solomon et al., 2008; Ward & Merlo, 2016). Despite such limitations, advances in assessment and treatment have been made within the criminal justice system, including: psychometrically sound screening tools, evidence-based interventions, case management and outreach services, and the use of multidisciplinary staff with cross-training in both mental illness and substance use disorders. However, many jails continue to lack resources and fall short in appropriately identifying and treating mental illness or substance use disorders among incarcerated individuals (Peters, Rojas, & Bartoi, 2016; Peters et al., 2017; Staton-Tindall et al., 2018).