Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court

This report outlines 10 elements essential to mental health court design and implementation and provides background on why each element is important and how courts can adhere to it.

Michael Thompson, Dr. Fred Osher, and Denise Tomasini-Joshi | 2008 | The Council of State Governments Justice Center
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