Stephanie Knight

Nov 14, 2023 | ps.psychiatryonline.org | Stephanie Hare |Stephanie Knight |Pamela Rakhshan Rouhakhtar |Sandra Benzer

Involuntary civil commitment (CC) is a legal intervention in which a person experiencing symptoms of a serious mental illness (e.g., a mental illness that causes serious impairment) is court ordered to receive supervised inpatient care. Although CC laws vary by state, many of them share common features. For patients to be involuntarily hospitalized, most CC laws specify that they must present a danger to the life or safety of themselves or others.