Mental health
By: Sylvia Engdahl, book editor
Series: Issues on trial series; Issues on trial
Publisher: Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780737747386
Description: Examines how the courts have helped to shape the issue of mental illness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parents can commit children to mental institutions without their consent; title: Forcibly medicating psychiatric patients; title: Defining the rights of institutionalized patients; title: The right to live and receive treatment in the community.