Product Description: The Law & Mental Health Professionals series is designed to provide a resource for both mental health professionals and attorneys regarding mental health law in each state. The series presents the laws addressing many areas pertinent to mental health professionals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the last decade, many states have amended or interpreted their existing civil commitment statutes to allow for involuntary outpatient treatment. At the request of the California State Senate, the authors conducted a systematic literature review on involuntary outpatient commitment and analyzed California administrative data for all persons served by California's county contract mental health agencies...read more

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Product Description: Increasingly, a public health framework is needed to develop and advance mental health systems both nationally and locally. This uniquely multidisciplinary work integrates knowledge derived from research in epidemiology, treatment methods, service systems, and public policy to delineate such a framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)