Mental Health and Mental Disorders

Projects

Creation of a Legal Database on State Involuntary In-patient & Out-patient Civil Commitment Laws

This study will collect and code statutes, regulations and case law governing involuntary civil commitment to both inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment across the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Topic:
Health Services
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Mental Health and Proactive Policing: Individual and Community Effects

Proactive policing has become a primary strategy for controlling violence and disorder in urban America. The key tactic is the widespread use of "Terry" stops, where police temporarily detain, frisk and perhaps search persons or their property when an officer has "reasonable suspicion" to suspect that "crime is afoot." This project will identify the effects of proactive policing on the mental and physical health of persons stopped.
Topic:
Health Services
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Do Brief Incarcerations Before Jail Diversion Enhance Its Legal Levarage and Improve Outcomes Among People with Serious Mental Illness in Connecticut?

Two million people with serious mental illness enter U.S. jails each year. Jail diversion is a legal practice in which people with serious mental illness are diverted from the criminal justice system and in to treatment.
Topic:
Health Services
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Impact of Mental Health Parity Laws on Mental Health Treatment and Outcomes

This project analyzes the impact of state and federal parity laws designed to address the disparity between mental and physical health benefits in commercial insurance on mental health outcomes.
Topic:
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Police Interventions with Persons Affected by Mental Illnesses

Mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders constitute a global public health problem of enormous proportions. Developing and implementing cost-effective interventions to improve the lives of people with mental illnesses and comorbid substance abuse disorders remains a challenge for multiple, interfacing service systems, from public health to social welfare to law enforcement, the courts, and corrections.
Topic:
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Public Health Infrastructure
Firearms Laws, Mental Disorder, and Violence

The investigators will analyze merged, longitudinal, multivariable data from public mental health and criminal justice systems in Connecticut, Florida, and Virginia, to test the effectiveness of firearms laws' restrictions on access to guns for persons with a history of mental health adjudication.
Topic:
Injury and Violence Prevention
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Credible Offers, Wary Responses: A Peer-Staffed Qualitative Assessment of Court-Ordered Offers of Supported Housing to Adult Home Residents in New York

This study will study the implementation and outcomes of a court-originating remedial action to offer less restrictive housing to mentally ill adult home residents in New York.
Topic:
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Will the New Health Care Decisions Act in Virginia Improve Public Health?

This project will look at the implementation of Virginia’s newly-enacted Health Care Decisions Act (HCDA) and identify the key barriers and enabling factors that will determine the law’s ultimate impact on health outcomes, safety, and quality of life for persons with severe mental illness.
Topic:
Health Services
Mental Health and Mental Disorders

Law, Data, & Maps

COVID-19 Mitigation Laws at State Correctional Facilities Relating to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

This dataset, published on PDAPS.org, is cross-sectional and displays key features of mitigation laws at state correctional facilities relating to MOUD treatment across all 50 states and the District of Columbia in effect as of September 1, 2021.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
COVID-19 State Medicaid Waivers for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

This dataset is cross-sectional and displays key features of state Medicaid Waivers addressing COVID-19 across all 50 states and the District of Columbia approved as of July 1, 2021.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Increasing Access to Buprenorphine and Methadone During COVID-19

This dataset, published on PDAPS.org, is cross-sectional and displays key features of state laws increasing access to buprenorphine and methadone during COVID-19 across all 50 states and the District of Columbia approved as of June 1, 2021.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Earned Sick Leave Laws

This map presents state-level statutes and regulations that regulate earned sick leave laws in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as of January 1, 2021. Specifically, the map identifies whether earned sick leave is regulated by state law, the probationary period an employer may impose before allowing an employee to use leave, the rate of accrual, the limit an employer may place on the use and accrual of leave, and under which circumstances leave may be used by an employee.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Laws Authorizing Involuntary Commitment for Substance Use

This legal map presents statutes and regulations that authorize the involuntary commitment of substance users, in effect as of March 1, 2018. It catalogs the statutory standards authorizing commitment, parties authorized to petition for a commitment, provisions surrounding clinical assessments, parameters of judicial review, time periods for commitment authorization, allowable treatment, and procedures for recommitment.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Long-Term Involuntary Commitment Laws

This dataset explores all 50 states and the District of Columbia's laws regulating long-term involuntary commitment.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Short-Term Emergency Commitment Laws Map

This map explores the variation in short-term emergency civil commitment laws -- laws that govern how and when an individual may be admitted to a psychiatric facility without their consent.

Product Type:
Legal Maps
Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Laws

This map explores state laws and regulations that govern who can initiate the outpatient commitment process, the duration of commitment, whether the patient can refuse medication, what consequences exist for non-compliance, and whether outpatient commitment sets limits on the patient’s right to possess a firearm.

Product Type:
Legal Maps

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Projects

Creation of a Legal Database on State Involuntary In-patient & Out-patient Civil Commitment Laws

Mental Health and Proactive Policing: Individual and Community Effects

Do Brief Incarcerations Before Jail Diversion Enhance Its Legal Levarage and Improve Outcomes Among People with Serious Mental Illness in Connecticut?

Impact of Mental Health Parity Laws on Mental Health Treatment and Outcomes

Police Interventions with Persons Affected by Mental Illnesses

Firearms Laws, Mental Disorder, and Violence

Credible Offers, Wary Responses: A Peer-Staffed Qualitative Assessment of Court-Ordered Offers of Supported Housing to Adult Home Residents in New York

Will the New Health Care Decisions Act in Virginia Improve Public Health?

Law, Data, & Maps

COVID-19 Mitigation Laws at State Correctional Facilities Relating to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

COVID-19 State Medicaid Waivers for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Increasing Access to Buprenorphine and Methadone During COVID-19

Earned Sick Leave Laws

Laws Authorizing Involuntary Commitment for Substance Use

Long-Term Involuntary Commitment Laws

Short-Term Emergency Commitment Laws Map

Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Laws

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