The present study is the last in a planned series of studies concerning effects of current psychiatric legislation.
Samples of ninety-seven commitment certificates (Form 3s) and seventy-nine assessment applications (Form 1s) were analyzed, following procedures validated in several previous studies. The 1978 criteria, in the author's opinion, have yet precipitated no substantive or sizeable change in “operational definition,” that is, in types of persons being committed.
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