Juveniles and Psychiatric Institutionalization

Toward Better Due Process and Treatment Review in the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12440239
AutoresBeth E Molnar (0000-0002-5628-2989), BE Molnar (Harvard University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen2
Número2
Páginas98-98
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4065274
PMID10381831
OpenAlexW2266634235
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) can be used as a framework to examine issues regarding psychiatric institutionalization of juveniles in the United States. The current U.S. system allows children diagnosed with relatively mild, non-psychotic disorders or exhibiting delinquent behaviors to be placed in institutions. Failure to regulate treatment in these faciltities also results in abuses by the treatment providers. Parents can institutionalize a child under the guise of mental health "treatment" because they disapprove of the child's lifestyle choices. In some states, parents can waive the child's right to an impartial hearing before institutionalization. The serious social, mental, and physical health consequences of erroneous deprivation of liberty are discussed. Recommendations include that the U.S. ratify the CRC, guarantee due process for juveniles faced with institutionalization, conduct systematic treatment reviews, and correct institutional abuses

Convention · Convention on the Rights of the Child · Human rights · Institutionalisation · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Child and Adolescent Health · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Child Welfare and Adoption · Law · Medicine · Psychology