scholarly journals Mental Health Treatment and Unmet Mental Health Care Need Among Pregnant Women With Major Depressive Episode in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 503-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria X. Sanmartin ◽  
Mir M. Ali ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Debra S. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Major Depressive Episode ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Health Care Need ◽  
Unmet Mental Health

Dropping Out of Mental Health Treatment: Patterns and Predictors Among Epidemiological Survey Respondents in the United States and Ontario

2002 ◽  
Vol 159 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Edlund ◽  
Philip S. Wang ◽  
Patricia A. Berglund ◽  
Stephen J. Katz ◽  
Elizabeth Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Epidemiological Survey ◽  
Treatment Patterns ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Health Treatment

Formative case law and litigation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamedu F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Correctional Mental Health

The presence of comprehensive correctional mental health treatment programs and services in any given jail or prison is often due to successful class action litigation. This chapter reviews the legal and constitutional background for correctional mental health care in the United States and addresses many of the critical ways these courts impact policy and care delivery on a daily basis. Several court decisions have shaped modern correctional mental health care delivery. Officials are obligated under the Eighth Amendment to provide convicted prisoners with adequate medical care, which extends to mental health treatment. Pre-trial detainees also have a right to adequate physical and mental health care under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution). Since the Supreme Court proclaimed that inmates have a constitutional right to adequate health care, much has been written about the controlling decisions, their implications and applications by courts, and their implementation in correctional systems. There are, however, discrete issues related to mental health care in corrections that patients and providers in prisons and jails contend with daily that may not yet be resolved as matters of constitutional law. Case law and litigation are driving innovation in standards of care and enhancing the quality of correctional mental health. These reforms are gaining acceptance as preferred and expected standards of correctional mental health care in jails and prisons, and may reflect the present day ‘evolving standard of decency,’ becoming touchstones of constitutionally adequate care across systems.

Formative case law and litigation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamedu F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Correctional Mental Health

The presence of comprehensive correctional mental health treatment programs and services in any given jail or prison is often due to successful class action litigation. This chapter reviews the legal and constitutional background for correctional mental health care in the United States and addresses many of the critical ways these courts impact policy and care delivery on a daily basis. Several court decisions have shaped modern correctional mental health care delivery. Officials are obligated under the Eighth Amendment to provide convicted prisoners with adequate medical care, which extends to mental health treatment. Pre-trial detainees also have a right to adequate physical and mental health care under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution). Since the Supreme Court proclaimed that inmates have a constitutional right to adequate health care, much has been written about the controlling decisions, their implications and applications by courts, and their implementation in correctional systems. There are, however, discrete issues related to mental health care in corrections that patients and providers in prisons and jails contend with daily that may not yet be resolved as matters of constitutional law. Case law and litigation are driving innovation in standards of care and enhancing the quality of correctional mental health. These reforms are gaining acceptance as preferred and expected standards of correctional mental health care in jails and prisons, and may reflect the present day ‘evolving standard of decency,’ becoming touchstones of constitutionally adequate care across systems.

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