Involuntary Commitment: Opinions Regarding Patient Autonomy, Legal Parameters, and Behavioral Services Care Delivery

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Controversy abounds regarding the criteria for involuntary commitment, authority to commit patients with changing legal rules across the United States, and how such factors affect patient autonomy. The Psychiatric Services Controversies column describes three opinions as to the role and parameters of involuntary commitment in mental health systems of care with ideas that curtailing involuntary commitment, enhancing the program with a humanitarian perspective, and managing expansion of its scope to incorporate broader behavioral health diagnoses.

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