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Mental Health Legal Issues: General Mental Health Issues

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Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute This web site holds the Internet publications of the Legal Information Institute, a part of the Cornell Law School. The server offers the LII's collection of: Recent Supreme Court decisions Historic Supreme Court decisions Full version of U.S. Code U.S. Constitution Code of Federal Regulations Federal Rules of Evidence Civil Procedure The American Legal Ethics Library Overview of Mental Health Law Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Legal and policy resources on the civil rights of people with mental disabilities, including health care, education, housing, federal benefits, insurance and employment. Hear My Voice: Protecting Our Nation's Children A unique coalition of volunteer child advocates and professionals in the areas of law, mental health, and the media. Hieros Gamos: Law and Legal Research Center Well organized site with information, expert witness directory, law firm search, and more. Treatment Advocacy Center A nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating legal and clinical barriers to timely and humane treatment for Americans with severe brain disorders who are not receiving appropriate medical care. Focusing on schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder), TAC works to prevent the devastating consequences of non-treatment: homelessness, suicide, victimization, worsening of symptoms, violence, and incarceration.

 

Resource List

• American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law: An organization of psychiatrists dedicated to excellence in practice, teaching, and research in forensic psychiatry.
• ACA: Managed Care: "A Primer on Issues and Legislation. American Counseling Association Office of Public Policy and Information Web Page Report - December 1, 1997 ."
• APA: Violence and Mental Illness: People who have mental illnesses very rarely make the news. The overwhelming majority even those with severe disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder want only to live in dignity, free from the suffering brought by their illnesses.
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Legal and policy resources on the civil rights of people with mental disabilities, including health care, education, housing, federal benefits, insurance and employment.
• California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates: (sound) Membership organization working to promote public policy furthering the rights and well-being of mental health consumers.
• Care Act of 1999: Details pending federal legislation to strengthen penalties for perpetrators of child sexual abuse (HR 2382).
• Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute: "This web site holds the Internet publications of the Legal Information Institute, a part of the Cornell Law School. The server offers the LII's collection of:
  • Recent Supreme Court decisions
  • Historic Supreme Court decisions
  • Full version of U.S. Code
  • U.S. Constitution
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • Federal Rules of Evidence
  • Civil Procedure
  • The American Legal Ethics Library
  • Overview of Mental Health Law
• FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources: Thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, CLE courses, and more.
• Health law links: "Here is a list of links to other web pages which contain useful material for NHS trusts and their claims managers. There is not yet a great deal of information relating to UK health law available on the web."
• Hear My Voice: Protecting Our Nation's Children: A unique coalition of volunteer child advocates and professionals in the areas of law, mental health, and the media.
• Help For Parents.org: Education And Mental Health Law.
• Hieros Gamos: Law and Legal Research Center: Well organized site with information, expert witness directory, law firm search, and more.
• Kevin Childs Disability Links: "The content of my web site is geared towards providing people w/disabilities access to information to assist them in accessing housing, educational, vocational, self-help, psychosocial, and legal resources."
• LawLinks.com: Legal informational site
• M-Power: Consumer Run Statewide Advocacy Organization in Massachusetts.
• NARPA: 'Kendra's Law': With Kendra's Law, mental hygiene courts now have unprecedented powers over the lives of the mentally ill-and a long track record of shutting them out.
• National Library of Medicine: PubMed: Direct provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
• National Health Law Program: Information and resources about Health Laws. "30 Years of Working for Justice in Health Care for Low Income People."
• Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.: A Legal Reference on the Net: "Assistive technology, social security, work incentives, ssi, public assistance, disability, advocacy, food stamps, landlord, tenant, rent, arrears, divorce, custody, support, medicaid, medicare, special education, pass, vocational rehabilitation ssd, ssdi, welfare, handicapped, deaf, blind, poverty, durable medical equipment, wheelchair, protection and advocacy..."
• Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia: Caring for Children: Practical information on adoption, child support, and child custody. Printable online forms are available that authorize temporary guardianship and permit others to okay medical care for a child or to travel abroad with a child.
• Our Children Our Future: Expose - The Failure of Family Courts to Protect Children from Abuse in Custody Disputes: A Resource Book for Lawmakers, Judges, Attorneys and Mental Health Professionals. Our Children Our Future Charitable Foundation. Edited by Elize St. Charles, MBA. "An impassioned effort to ensure the safety and welfare of our nation's least represented citizens: children." Published by and available for $25 (plus $4.50 S&H and $2.06 taxes) from: Our Children Our Future Charitable Foundation, PO Box 1111, Los Gatos, CA 95031-1111; 408-356-8987; fax: 408-358-8173; email: ocofcf@aol.com.
• Painlaw.org: The Pain and Palliative Care Reporter collects and disseminates legal materials and links that will assist attorneys and other advocates.
• Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D.: Child Custody and Parental Alienation Syndrome Resources for parents, attorneys, evaluators, and therapists
• Safe-Trak.com: Mental Illness, Crime, Violence and the Law
• Special Education Legal Primer for Parents: What is a Disability?: "A step-by-step guide through the special education maze for parents and child advocacy workers."
• Treatment Advocacy Center: A nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating legal and clinical barriers to timely and humane treatment for Americans with severe brain disorders who are not receiving appropriate medical care. Focusing on schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder), TAC works to prevent the devastating consequences of non-treatment: homelessness, suicide, victimization, worsening of symptoms, violence, and incarceration.
• Western New York Law Center: "Assistive technology, social security, work incentives, ssi, public assistance, disability, advocacy, food stamps, landlord, tenant, rent, arrears, divorce, custody, support, medicaid, medicare, special education, pass, vocational rehabilitation ssd, ssdi, welfare, legal services."
• The Zero: Searchable database of agencies, and organizations that assist with child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, animal welfare, mental health, health care, juvenile justice, human trafficking and many more, as well as other research and assistance materials.