Contemplation of Legal Criteria of Psychiatric Compulsory Admission: Including an Introduction of US Case Which Can be Referred to the Assessment of the Appropriateness of Hospitalization in Korea / 신경정신의학
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
;
: 43-51, 2018.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-765179
ABSTRACT
The Korean Mental Health Act has been radically reformed recently in order to improve psychiatric patients' human rights by regulating the compulsory admission process. However, the expert group brought up questions about difficulties in practice and incoherence in its philosophy before the Act was implemented. There are already discussions concerning the next revision of the Act. In such a situation, lessons can be learned from the experiences of other countries. Articles on psychiatric compulsory admission were comprehensively reviewed with the focus on legal criteria, and found that current trends worldwide include a move towards broad diagnostic criteria, use of capacity and treatability test, and treatment in the interest of health rather than safety. In addition, we introduce the Whittington scale, an assessment tool for the appropriateness of hospitalization used in the Connecticut Mental Health Center, US, as a reference for the similar procedure being implemented soon in Korea.
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Main subject:
Philosophy
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Connecticut
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Mental Health
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Dangerous Behavior
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Hospitalization
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Human Rights
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Korea
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Mental Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
North America
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Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
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