... commitment. These include substantial mental disorder, risk or danger (along with practical aspects of the forensic application of dangerousness in civil commitment), least restrictive alternative, and common forensic and legal issues for which experts must often plan. When a patient has...

...Figure 6.1 Judgments and Decisions toward Determining Commitment Opinions. Chapter 6 discusses the interpretation of data. It presents questions to consider whilst interpretation data, such as if the respondent has a substantial mental disorder, if the substantial disorder causes gross...

... on involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. It also examines FMHA concepts such as “substantial” mental disorder and the “risk” of harm posed by the respondent to him or herself or others because of that disorder; the empirical foundations and limitations of evaluations for civil commitment; and the steps...