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Mental Health Law: Selected Issues: Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill

Books

Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law: A Practical Handbook by Linda Tashbrook
Call Number: KF 489 .T37

Publication Date: 2019

Ohio Laws

Oh. Rev. Code Chapter 5122

Important sections:

Oh. Rev. Code Sec. 5122.10
Emergency hospitalization, also called "pink slipping".
Oh. Rev. Code Sec. 5122.11
Court ordered treatment of mentally ill person
Oh. Rev. Code Sec. 5122.111
Affidavit of mental illness. File with probate court to ask for court ordered treatment of mentally ill.

Agencies

Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Forms

Application for Emergency Admission
File with Probate Court when following "pink-slip" process

Links

Involuntary Treatment for Mental Illness
Ohio Legislative Services Commission Members' Brief, 2021.

Psychiatric Commitments

Franklin County Probate Court Psychiatric Commitment Forms and E-Filing Advice