The Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee Handbook on the Legal Rights of Minors was updated in 2001 to reflect the numerous changes in mental health law, the Handbook is an invaluable guide to the law related to the mental health care of children and adolescents.
Page after page of clear, concise explanations and easy-to-find reference materials, the Handbook sheds light on new legislative and administrative initiatives:
Order the handbook.
Synopsis of major chapters:
Accessing Mental Health Services
Participation in Treatment Planning
Guardianship
Treatment Rights
Admission and Committment
Civil Rights
Restraint, Seclusion, and Behavior Management
Confidentiality and Privilege
Access to Mental Health Records
Cash Assistance Benefits
Healthcare Coverage Programs
Special Education
Legal and Advocacy Resources
Also available from Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee:
To receive your 2001 edition of The Handbook on the Legal Rights of Minors,
please complete this form and mail with a check for your donation of $50 made out to
MHLAC Trust Fund to:
Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
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Eligibility criteria, agency coverage, complaint procedures for the Department of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation, Public Health, Social Services, and Youth Services, Division
of Medical Assistance, and the Office of Child Care Services.
Individual service plan, treatment plan, and periodic review requirements under the
Department of Mental Health and the Department of Social Services, and for group care and
temporary shelter facilities licensed by the Office of Child Care Services.
Forms of guardianship, filing for guardianship, alternatives to guardianship, care and
protection, child in need of services, and deliquency proceedingss, and termination of
parental rights.
Right to treatment, informed consent, right to refust treatment, right to refuse to serve
as a research subject, and who may consent to or refuse treatment.
Section 12, conditional voluntary status, civil commitment proceedings
and appeals, hospitalization in connection with a criminal case, commitment of substance abusers,
and civil commitment reform.
Telephone calls, visitors, letters, personal possessions, privacy, security, clothing, free
expression, money management, payment for work, discrimination, counseling and confidentiality
for HIV testing, smoking, notice of human rights, complaints, and legal representation.
Restraint, seclusion, and behavior management in facilities, programs, and schools liscensed,
funded or accredited by state agencies and JCAHO.
Types of professionals who must keep information confidential, exeptions to requirement,
remedies for breach of confidentiality, privilege and exceptions to privilege.
Legal requirements, practical tips on accessing records, appealing denial of access, copying
fees, and amending records.
Eligibility guidelines, application processes, and calculation of benefits for Supplimental
Security Income (SSI), Social Security, Transitional Aid to Familities with Dependant Children
(welfare), and Emergency Aid for the Elderly, Disabled and Children (general relief).
Eligibility guidelines, application processes and appealing denials for Masshealth and
Commonhealth (Medicaid), private insurance, and other healthcare coverage programs.
Eligibility guidelines, referral, evaluation, individualized education program, independent
evaluations, school disciplinary actions, due process rights, records, Chapter 688 referral,
and educational services in institutional settings.
General and specialized legal services, and parent support and advocacy services.
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