Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness Barnard Alex V.
Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness Barnard Alex V. Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental…
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Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness Barnard Alex V.
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? At the same time, civil liberties and disability rights groups have seized on cases like that of Britney Spears to argue that conservatorships are inherently abusive.Conservatorship is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning--and failings--of California's conservatorship system. In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed "gravely disabled," or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of mental illness, to take medication and be placed in a locked facility.
Barnard takes readers to the streets where Drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees, Alex V.
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