@article{ref1,
title="Enforced psychiatric treatment of minors in Israel: the interface between the Mental Health Act and the Youth Law",
journal="Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences",
year="1995",
author="Jaworowski, S. and Nachmias, S. and Zabow, Aubrey",
volume="32",
number="2",
pages="114-119",
abstract="Proposed changes in the current Youth Law will provide enforced psychiatric treatment, including civil commitment, for &quot;at risk&quot; minors. Such minors are considered at significant risk of future developmental damage without such treatment. The potential exists for a clash between the proposed criteria for enforced psychiatric treatment in the Youth Law and the existing criteria in the current Mental Health Act: &quot;need for treatment&quot; in the former versus &quot;immediate and physical danger to self or others as a result of psychotic illness&quot; in the latter. Proposed changes in the Mental Health Act include broadening the criteria for enforced psychiatric treatment of minors. The revised criteria would include non-psychotic emotional disorders (such as recurrent suicidal behavior) which endanger the minor's physical and emotional development. These changes are welcomed. The authors suggest the adoption of &quot;need for treatment&quot; criteria, as against the current &quot;physical danger to self or others&quot; criteria for enforced psychiatric treatment of minors.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0333-7308",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}