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Document ADA Hot Links and Document Center - A deep, extensive set of resources about the Americans with Disabilities Act: articles, web sites, text of the law and regulations, accessibility standards, and much, much more. Provided by the "Job Accommodation Network" at WVU, operated under contract from the Office of Disability Employment Programs of the US Department of Labor. 
Other Topics: Americans with Disabilities Act  Other Civil Rights 
Document Psychiatric Advance Directives and Treatment of Committed Patients - Advance directives have been one of the more promising innovations in recent years to give patients a greater voice in their psychiatric treatment. Completed when patients are competent, advance directives allow patients to appoint proxy decision makers and to make choices about particular treatments, all to take effect should patients later become incompetent to make decisions for themselves. Advance directives have been hailed as a way of encouraging patients and treaters to discuss future contingencies and to negotiate mutually acceptable approaches to care. All states have statutes that govern the use of advance directives, which can be applied to general medical and psychiatric care, and many states now have special provisions for advance directives for psychiatric care per se. 
Other Topics: Mental Health Issues  Health Care  Commitment Procedures  Right to Refuse Treatment 
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