Understanding Mental Illness And Responding to Suicide In Criminal Justice Settings
CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS ON MENTAL HEALTH
[Adopted August 8, 2016, to supplant the Third Edition (August 1984) of the ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards, For the version of the Mental Health Standards in effect prior to August 8, 2016, please click here.]
PART I: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
Standard 7-1.1. Terminology
(a) Unless otherwise specified, these Standards adopt the definition of “mental disorder” found in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.* In the settings addressed by the Standards, mental disorder is most likely to encompass mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorders; developmental disabilities that affect intellectual and adaptive functioning; and substance use disorders that develop from repeated and extensive abuse of drugs or alcohol or some combination thereof.
(b) “Mental health professional,” as used in these Standards, includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses and other clinicians with expertise in the evaluation and treatment of mental disorders.
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