ABUSE & TRAUMA
• Abuse, Trauma
& Incidence
ACCESSIBILITY
• Accessible HTML
• Bobby
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Concrete Change: Accessible Housing
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Equal Access to Software
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TTY Hookup Info
ACTIVISM
• Dendron
•
DREDF's guide to taking action
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Disability Rights Activist
• Greg Smith’s "On a Roll"
ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
•
Adaptive Technology Resource Center
Alzheimer's Disease: Legal Issues
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
• ADA Document Ctr
ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
•
State of Illinois "Consent to Treatment" form
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North Dakota State "Decisions for Health" documents
• Psychiatric Advance Directives
• abstracts
When Physican and Patient Disagree (1995)
ASSOCIATIONS
• Bazelon Center
• Ctr for the Study of Psychiatry
• Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
• Mental Health Matters!
• MAD Nation
• Madness Network
• Mental Disability Rights International
• National Empowerment Center
ATTORNEYS
BIOETHICS
• MAD Nation's Bioethics links
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FIGO Committee for Study of Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction
BRAIN INJURY
• BIACT
• Brain Injury:
State Affiliates & Support Resources
BUREAUCRACIES
Australia
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Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network
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Tasmania Dept of Health & Human Services
USA
• Equal Empl. Opp. Comm.
• General Services Admin.
• Dept. of Justice
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Natn'l Institutes of Health
• Social Security Admin.
CASE LAW | Mental Health
•
Mental Health Matters
•
Hooper's Case Law
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Illinois Advocacy Center
•
Law in Scotland
CIVIL RIGHTS
COMMITMENT
•
Right to jury by trial in commitment proceedings
CONFIDENTIALITY
•
Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn: "Charting Psychoanalysis"
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Confidentiality of MH and Mental Retardation RecordsTexas
• abstracts
Therapy records not always private (1993)
• essays
Privacy & Confidentiality of Behavioral Health Records by Jean Campbell
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DEAF CULTURE
• The Deaf Resource Library
• Deafscape
• Deaf World Web
• DeafZone
• Deaf Interpreters Registry
• TDD/TTY to USA Feds
DICTIONARIES
General Medical
• Merck Manual, 17th ed
Legal
• Black's Law Dictionary
• Duhaime's legal dictionary
Mental Health
•
Human Nature.com's Online Dictionary
DISABILITY RIGHTS
• ADAPT
• BIAC - Home Page
• Independent Living USA
• Nat'l Council on Disability
DUE PROCESS
EFN's Human Rights Sites
Electronic Freedom Foundation
ELECTROSHOCK
• CMHS report on ECT
• SHOCKED!
E-MAIL SERVICES
They're free. sign up and get connected
• HotMail
• Juno
• Opera Mail
find an attorney
FORCED TREATMENT
•
Command-Directed Mental Health Evaluations
• People Against Coercive Treatment
FORENSIC RESOURCES
Gopher
HUMANE TREATMENT
INDUSTRY OPINIONS
Amer. Psychological Assn's version of:
•
Patients' Bill of Rights
INFORMED CONSENT
•
FDA Protection of Human Subjects
•
NIMH: Participant's Guide to Mental Health Clinical Research
"LOTS of LINKS" sites
• Dr. Bob's Mental Health Links
MANAGED CARE
• book review
Managed Care, Not Dollars
MEDICAL RECORDS
•
The Medical Records Privacy Protection Act (1996)
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY
• Advocacy & Empowerment
• Advocacy Unlimited
• Bazelon Ctr for Mental Health Law
• Natn'l Empowerment Ctr
• Natn'l Mental Health
Consumer Self-help Clearinghouse
• Mental Illness Activist
• NARPA
• Protection & Advocacy
POWER OF ATTORNEY
PRIVACY
• book review
Privacy & Confidentiality in Mental Health Care by Bernard Arons
PRIVLEGED COMMUNICATION
PUBLICATIONS
• Disability News Service
• Freedom Clearinghouse
RESEARCH
•
45 CFR part 46: Protection of Human Subjects
•
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute
RESTRAINTS
SECLUSION
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STATUTES
NOTE: You can click directly on the underlined
States/Province names for a "txt" file of various statutes affecting mental patients' rights available. Once at the statute site you may have to scroll up or down
to find the Patients' Rights section of the law
AUSTRALIA
Overview
•
Mental Health Act of 1997
CANADA
New Brunswick:
Chapter M-10, Pt 2, sec 8.4
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Mental Health Patients' Rights
USA
California:
Title 9, chap 12
•
Search engine: enter: "patients' rights"
Connecticut:
17a-540
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Patients' Rights; Psychiatric Disability
Florida:
Chapter 394.459
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Mental Health Patients' Rights
Indiana:
IC-16-32-3
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Rights of the Blind & Physically Disabled
Title 12, article 27
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Rights of Individuals Being Treated for Mental Illness of Developmental Disabilities
Kentucky:
908 KAR 1:200
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Clients' Rights | Substance Abuse Programs
908 KAR 3:010
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Patients' Rights | Institutional Care Mental Health
Maryland:
§ 19-319.2
available (with difficulty) thru
LEXIS Law Search engine for
Maryland
• Policies & Procedures Regarding Patients' Rights
Maine:
Title 34-B, Chap 3. § 3808
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Patients' Rights
Michigan:
Chap 7. 330.1700
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Rights of Recipients of Mental Health Services
Missouri:
Handbook, P & A
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Rights for Mental Health Patients
New York:
Article 33
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Rights of "Mental Hygiene" Patients
General Info/Medical
•
Patients' Rights
South Carolina:
Title 44 1976 code, chap 22
•
Mental Health Patients' Rights
Summary Brochure
•
An Overview of Patient Rights & Responsibilities
Vermont
Title 18: Health
•
Hospital Patients' Bill of Rights
Wisconsin
Wyoming
UNITED NATIONS
•
Protection of Persons with Mental Illness (1991)
WARMLINES
• NEC Warmlines
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