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01-04-2010 | Original paper

Who Initiates Emergency Commitments?

Authors: Annette Christy, Jessica B. Handelsman, Ardis Hanson, Ezra Ochshorn

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 2/2010

Abstract

Florida’s Mental Health Act was amended in 2005 and 2006 to include licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists, respectively, to the list of professionals authorized to initiate emergency commitments. The present study evaluates the volume of involuntary emergency commitments by type of initiator for a 5 year period. The results indicate that allowing licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapist to initiate emergency commitments has not been related to increased numbers of emergency commitments or a higher proportion of emergency commitments being initiated by mental health professionals. Potential policy and fiscal implications, as well as future directions for research, are discussed.

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Title: Who Initiates Emergency Commitments?
Authors: Annette Christy
Jessica B. Handelsman
Ardis Hanson
Ezra Ochshorn
Publication date: 01-04-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-009-9216-5

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