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The Texas Mental Health Code was passed as House bill 6 by the 55th Texas legislative session in May 1957 and went into effect on January 1, 1958. [1] The purpose of the Texas Mental Health Code was to provide equitable, humane, and accessible treatment measures for mentally ill individuals while minimizing to the greatest extent possible any logistical obstacles, financial expenses, and ...
Darrel Spinks, executive director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council, which oversees counseling and social worker licenses, said they were never consulted on the implications of the law.
The new law replaced the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools and combined several functioning entities under the Texas State Department of Health into a new agency called the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. [7] This act was revolutionary within the field of mental health on several fronts.
A Texas regulatory board has reinstated protections that bar social workers from refusing services to LGBTQ people and people with disabilities. The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council, or ...
Common law is based on long-standing English legal principles, as interpreted through case law. Mental health-related legal concepts include mens rea, insanity defences; legal definitions of "sane," "insane," and "incompetent;" informed consent; and automatism, amongst many others. Statutory law usually takes the form of a mental health statute.
The state Health and Human Services Commission in late January issued an emergency suspension for Fort Behavioral Health’s adolescent treatment programs, which include programming for autistic ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings regarding mental health and how society treats and regards the mentally ill. While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [ 1 ] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC.