Civil Commitment in the Psychiatric Emergency Room

摘要: • Critics of the dangerousness standard for civil commitment contend that there is no professional evaluation dangerousness. We used Three Ratings Involuntary Admissibility, a reliable index behavioral indicators danger to self, others, and grave disability, found when combined into weighted patterns these predicted disposition decisions 70 clinicians in five psychiatric emergency rooms over 251 cases. A concurrent measure perceived dangerousness, Clinician's Global patients on criteria, yielded similar results. conclude California apply shared concept can be described terms.