Oregon Legal Research BlogComment on the Draft of the Forthcoming DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) DSM-5 Draft Criteria Open for Final Public Comment: May 2nd through June 15th, 2012…
Search Results for: label/Mental disorders
Published on:
What is a Mental Health Court?
A recent media release from the Washington County Health and Human Services Department describes their Mental Health Court: Mental Health Court: Moving From Jail and Hospital to Stability in…
Published on:
DSM-V (Five): Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
You read that right. It’s almost, but not quite, DSM-V time. The editors of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (expected publication in…
Published on:
Drug Decriminalization & Mental Health Policies: The Portugal Experiment
Reading the recent Willamette Week story, “Saving Ryan: Why it was left to two Portland judges to bring this junkie back from the brink,” September 15, 2010, by…
Published on:
Law School Graduation Gifts
…“Representing Clients with Personality Disorders” (receiving rave (not raving) reviews from my library’s patrons) and there was also a 2004 CLE Seminar on “Working With Difficult People.” Trust me. This…
Published on:
Mental Disabilities Blogs
Inter Alia spotlights a new mental disability law blog, which has a nice little roundup of the Winkelman case. Another mental disabilities blog is here….
Published on:
Crime, Mental Illness, Politics, Law and Libraries
1) Crime in the library, the lighter side (public librarians laughing darkly) 2) People with Mental Illnesses in the Library (public librarians not laughing, darkly or otherwise) 3) Library…
Published on:
Conquering Fear of Dementia, One Nursing Home at a Time (New Yorker article)
If you’ve not read about the Beatitudes Campus model of care for people with dementia, this New Yorker magazine article will change how you look at (and feel…
Published on:
Veterans Law Library: Statutes, Cases, Post-war Physical and Mental Illness Claim Information, and Much More
Visit the online Veterans Law Library: “A Comprehensive Collection of Materials Relating to the Veterans Benefits Adjudication Process.” It includes primary and secondary sources, case law, Agent Orange…
Published on:
New Edition of DSM-IV? Nope, not yet.
In case you were wondering … and this question comes up at least once a week …: A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…