Question

Chapter 7 Mental Health: Long Term and Acute Services.

What are some legal and risk management issues with providing mental health care? How do health care organizations address these issues?

Describe the details of the 1976 court case Tasaroff v. Regents of the University of California. How did this court case change mental health care practices and the responsibility of a provider’s duty to warn?

What is the closest NC state mental health institution? What is the difference between voluntary and involuntary commitment to a mental health institution? What requirements must be in place for a person to be “committed” to a state mental health institution?

Answer 1

LEGAL AND RISK MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN PROVIDING MENTAL HEALTH CARE

• Impoved telecommunities networks and techonology delivered mental health services to patient any where at the any time, in the particular to those patient in rural and isolated communities. This increase the use of techonology to deliver mental health care over a distance raises a number of regulatory issues relevant for safe and effective practice

• There are some legal , regulatory   and risk management issues in today' Telemonth health [TMH] environment , with specific emphasis on licensure , malpractice , credentialing , and privileging , security and privacy and emergency management
  
• There are some risk management consideration . related to mobile health application and the use of thr socila networking to deliver the TMH services .
  

There are some orgnisation by which the issues related to the mental health care can be minimized:-

• Individual patient preferences , needs and the values prevail in the facing of residual stigma , discrimination , and coercion into treatment.
• The necessary infrastructure exists to produce scientific evidence more quickly and promote its application in patient care.
• Mulitple providers' care of the same patient is coordinated
• Emerging information technology related to health care benefits people with mental or substance use problems and illness.
• The health care workforce has the education , training , and capacity to deliver high quality care for mental and the substance use conditions .
• Government programs , employers and other group purchsers of health care for the mental and the substances uses conditions use their dollars in ways that support the delivery of high quality care.
• Research funds are used in helping the studies that have direct clinical and policy relevance and that are focused on discovering and testing therapeutic advances.
• The strategy addresses issues pertaining to health care for both mental and substances used conditions and the essential role of health care for both conditions in improving overall health and health care .

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VOLUNTARY TREATMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH INSITUTION	INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH INSITUATION
when a person seeks treatment for acondition , he or she has the choice to acquire the necessary procedure or medication . sometimes these procedures are surgeries Occasionally , the voluntary treatment is cosmetic and entirely voluntary without the prescription or diagnosis coming from a doctor .	When the person acquries involuntary treatment , it can happen because of certain conditions such as, comas , uncounsciousness or mental illness. certain inmates in prison will receive involuntary treatment with the consent coming from the prison or a state .

PLACING THE PATIENT TO BE "COMMITED" TO A STATE MENTAL HEALTH INSTIUTION
There are some criteria that person should hve to be possessed in addmitting the mental health insitution are as follows ;-

• the person hving the poor mental health , he is unable to recognising the souuonding materials
• The person interaction with others such as in society , with famiy , friends ,colleagues is deprieved form.
• the person might be look like in confuse state , his altered a sensorium level
• the gait pof the person might be changed.
• the person's behaviour chanaged from the normal that he do in thwe daily life .
• the person daily activites might be changed.
• the person mood patter abnormally changed .