Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

The post Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Help appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info. At the Wrightslaw website, parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys can find accurate, reliable information and trainings about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.

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Sanity Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

4) Legal Aid Free Legal Services: In India, the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) offers free legal help to single women who meet income eligibility. Organizations like Breakthrough India and Majlis (Mumbai) provide legal awareness and support for women’s rights.

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Mad in America

MARCH 25, 2025

Legislative and Policy Frameworks Triestes success is underpinned by Italys strong legal commitment to human rights in mental health care, exemplified by Law 180, which abolished psychiatric hospitals. While Irelands Mental Health Act (2001) has undergone review, it still falls short in fully safeguarding rights.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2025

There are ongoing ethical, moral, and legal challenges surrounding the prescription and discontinuation of antipsychotic medicationschallenges that a new article suggests can be addressed through the lens of epistemic injustice.

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Psychiatric Times

MARCH 21, 2025

Legislative and legal realities at the state and federal levels are difficult to navigate even for seasoned practitioners, and are beyond the knowledge of most families.

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Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

As we come to understand the psychiatric hospital as a pseudo-prison, we must address the question of legality—the pseudo-laws which surround the pseudo-prison. ” As such, psychiatry is enclaved into the legal system as a secret supplementary legal system—a legal system inside the legal system.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Of the 38 agencies that responded, 25 reported using screening protocols that several mental health and legal experts said don’t meet professional standards. The Marshall Project sent questions to all 50 state corrections departments asking whether and how they screen prisoners for developmental or intellectual disabilities.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 13, 2023

in Psychology from Yale University, Certifications in Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology, two federal judicial clerkships, and a former Adjunct Law Professor of the Year award at Fordham , Jordana Confino understands the unique stressors and demands of the legal profession. With a J.D. from Yale Law School , a B.A.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2025

Kathy Hochul shored up her public safety agenda this week when state lawmakers agreed to loosen the legal standard for involuntary commitment of the mentally ill a major victory for the Democrat and a sign that political winds on the issue are shifting to the center. From Politico : “ALBANY, New York Gov.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” 19, lists “CRPD provisions for a rights-based approach to mental health,” including Legal capacity, Liberty and security of person, Free and informed consent, Living independently, Inclusion in the community, and Access to justice.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

People can’t legally be nasty to us because disability abuse is a hate crime too but that doesn’t appear to stop them; there doesn’t seem to be any legal precedents, cases or arrests when people who are exhibiting bizarre behaviour, are subjected to abuse and called names. He scrawled something down on a notepad, something.

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Lawyers with Depression

MARCH 22, 2025

This is a guest blog from attorney, Amarbir Singh Shergill , a Private Legal Practitioner in the Honble Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, India since 2019. The Indian legal system, festered with rewards for the privileged and resourceful, amplifies this harsh reality. He earned his B.A.LLB (Hons.) Fame attracts fame.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2025

The JLECBH Charter indicates that it is [e]establishing an anticipated inventory of future services and supports with a specific emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and home or community-based capacity designed to reduce reliance on emergency, criminal legal, crisis, and involuntary services (emphasis added ) , among other actions.

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Psychiatry Online

APRIL 29, 2025

Psychiatric News, Volume 60, Issue 5 , May 1, 2025 May 31, 2025.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2025

Doing so would also include allowing them to bear the potential consequences of rejecting assistance, such as legal action and social disapproval, as well as the consequences of requesting assistance, such as the potential harms of pharmaceutical interventions.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

Publishers like ADDitude are left with few legal options for fighting defamation and bias, despite the injury to their reputation and business. It’s important to note that section 230 of the Communication Decency Act protects social media companies from defamation lawsuits for statements made by their users and moderators.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Prior to 1967, psychiatrically, intellectually, and developmentally disabled Californians lacked legal protections against involuntary confinement in institutions. ’ LPS also established some of the first due process rights for people facing involuntary psychiatric commitments.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Yet they laude legal poisons that make the side effects of street drugs look like candy bars. They have no address; the system has little legal access to them. I can speak with them of what I have experienced with drug side effects and possibly enlighten them to what may be going on in their own process with these drugs.

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Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

The fact that a diagnosis such an antisocial personality disorder does not prevent a person from facing legal consequences suggests that we implicitly maintain the assumption of agency. If we reject this assumption for individuals with personality disorders, on what grounds do we continue to hold others accountable for their actions?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Worst of all, corporal punishment remains legal in 23 US states —so why are our efforts focused on TikTok and texting? In the US, about 10 percent of students are sexually abused in school , while schools continue to discipline students with disabilities by restraining or isolating them.

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Lawyers with Depression

JULY 22, 2024

The legal profession is renowned for its rigorous demands and high-pressure environment. They must constantly learn and stay updated on changing laws and legal trends. We must have a discussion about alcohol abuse and addictions within the legal profession. Lawyers have to hustle and compete for clients and recognition.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

All of this was an obvious prelude to legalization of cannabis and being able to market it as an intoxicant. There was also the idea that the United States was lagging behind the rest of the world in legalization, when it is only fully legal in 9 countries in the world.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The societal expectations and legal consequences tied to these judgments reflect a departure from humanitys evolutionary roots. To me, when a persons natural statenakedis deemed illegal, and people using natures medicine cabinet for medicinal purposes are labeled as criminals, it signals that our ideas of common decency have gone too far.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Unfortunately, we are moving in the wrong direction when it comes to student privacy, and constant online monitoring may soon become legally required, even when schools choose privacy-preserving mental health options. The bulk of these legally induced harms will fall on historically marginalized students.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. All of this documentation adds up to a significant psychological toll on the writer—how could it not?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

’ Idaho will soon be the last state to legally sanction the practice of imprisoning patients who are ‘dangerously mentally ill,’ to use Idaho’s parlance, but who are not criminals. New Hampshire is phasing it out.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For his efforts, Silas received a very prestigious award, the Kafka award, which is given to a person who has made a special effort to strengthen the legal position of weak social groups in society. This should be done in all countries. Silas lived in a youth home for the last period of his life.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MARCH 24, 2025

For people with SUD, many of whom face housing insecurity, prolonged periods of unemployment and legal challenges related to involvement with the criminal justice system, building this foundation is especially complex. Recovery is not just about treatment; it is about creating a foundation for long-term wellbeing.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was now my carer and had legal authority over me. I did not legally require her or anyone elses approval. More plausibly, it was because my prison bed was required for another unfortunate individual. The hospital staff released me back into the arms of my abuser.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Only by following legal and financial motivations can one make sense of what has happened to our world’s handling of psychological distress. Any other time in history would laugh at how long it has taken the scientific community to acknowledge this reality (almost as though there were conflicts of interest at play all along).

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Zencare

JUNE 6, 2025

Phrases like “for educational purposes only” or “this is not a substitute for therapy” aren’t just legal disclaimers, they’re ethical markers. Look for Boundaries, Not Just Vibes One of the best signs you’re dealing with a licensed professional? They’ll make it very clear their Instagram account isn’t therapy.

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Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In this blog, learn about Eleanore Maccoby, PhD, whose ground-breaking research on child development and gender studies effected various legal and social policies regarding children in divorcing families.

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Zencare

JUNE 18, 2025

Common Challenges Faced by LGBTQ Couples Societal Pressures LGBTQ couples often face external stressors like discrimination, microaggressions, and legal challenges that can strain even the healthiest relationships. I recommend finding a therapist who can truly provide this for you and your partner.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

.’ The day featured a number of talks by academics and experts from the faculty and guest speakers, covering topics such as proposals for a young onset dementia service, integrated care in health services, innovations in service delivery, clinical and legal updates and more. View the programme of the day below

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 8, 2023

My name is Kyle Hulbert; I am No-One’s Son, The Boy Nobody Knew, and I am not the only child to have been devoured by that great grey beast.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Simon interviewed dozens of people with relevant expertise, including legal scholars, First Nations’ leaders, disability rights advocates and folks working in restorative justice processes. The process was held with a spirit of stewardship—we were doing this work in relationship with (and accountable to) our wider communities.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

This is a story of many, many patients, and the perspective of an international movement of patients, families, clinicians, researchers, legal advocates, and disability rights activists. This isn’t just a plea from my perspective.

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