In a film she made with the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives, Ruston recalled her dad showing up at her doorstep, suffering from psychosis, hundreds of miles from his home.

Providing peer or community health workers to help psychiatric patients with complete psychiatric advance directives (PAD) to govern care in advance of a mental health crisis is associated with a ...

In August, 2014, following the tragic suicide of comic genius Robin Williams, Kay Redfield Jamison published an article in the NY Times titled “To Know Suicide.” In this essay, Dr. Jamison mentions ...

The concept of advanced planning for psychiatric illness emerged in the 1990s; more than half of U.S. states now have a psychiatric directive statute on the books. Interest in such laws coincided with ...

Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. When people hear the term “advance directive,” they usually ...

SEATTLE — Despite being put in place 20 years ago by the Washington Legislature, some mental health advocates say that mental health advance directives are not being well utilized in the state. Mental ...

Yvonne Smith has had a pair of mental illnesses diagnosed over the years, but it wasn't until a severe psychotic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward that she came to a sober realization: Although ...

This publication examines the background and implementation of advance directives. Like living wills in healthcare, they allow service users to plan for the future. They enable people to decide what ...

Trusts and estates attorneys devise estate plans that will protect their clients during their lifetimes and upon death. To do that we have our mainstay tools: wills, trusts and powers of attorney for ...