Section 10 Mental Health

1 mental health is important at every stage of life from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Section 10 mental health. A to provide for the assessment ofpersons who appear to have mental illness and the treatmentof personswho have mental illness. A pursuant to departmental regulations on admission procedures the superintendent may receive and retain on a voluntary basis any person providing the person is in need of care and treatment and providing the admitting facility is suitable for such care and treatment. If someone says you re being sectioned under the mental health act they mean you re detained according to a particular section of the mental health act.

The application may be made 1 by a person who has attained the age of sixteen 2 by a parent or guardian of a person on behalf of a person under the age of eighteen years and 3 by the guardian of a person. The third character specifies the root type such as crisis intervention or counseling. The mental health act is structured in many sections.

Section 10 740 ilcs 110 10 from ch. Mental health procedure codes have a first character value of g. Police are not required to make a clinical judgment about whether the person has mental illness.

What is mental health. This section replaces section 10 in the mental health act 1986. In most cases you ll be told which section of the mental health act applied in your case.

This act has the following objectives. Mental health act 2014 sect 10. Because body system does not apply in this section the second character always has the value none.

10 1 a peace officer or other person who takes a person into custody under section 9 or 10 for the purpose of taking the person to a medical facility physician s office or psychiatric facility for examination shall promptly. Mental health includes our emotional psychological and social well being. Illinois compiled statutes 740 ilcs 110 mental health and developmental disabilities confidentiality act.