CIVIL RIGHTS OF MENTALLY ILL

What do you think about the civil rights of mentally ill patients? What problems might arise in matters, such as money management, receiving visitors, or telephoning others? How can patients be helped to use their rights prudently?

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Patients who are mentally ill need to be handled with a great care because of the nature of their illness that may even cause their destruction or even destruction of others. They should be offered services of quality in hospitals, homes and in the society at large. It is good for the public to be made aware that the mentally ill are still humans that are living with a disorder; this will help to avoid the discrimination (Arrigo, 2002)…

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