A psychiatric patient is a person who is being observed, cared for, or treated for their mental health in a psychiatric facility. Some psychiatric patients may be able to live at home and visit the psychiatric facility when they need to. Some psychiatric patients may need to be detained at the psychiatric facility.
A psychiatric facility is a place where patients are treated for their mental health. The health-care providers who work at psychiatric facilities usually have special training to work with mental health patients. For example, psychiatrists and psychologists. If a psychiatric patient needs to be detained, they're usually detained in a...
If you're detained, it means you're not allowed to leave a place such as a psychiatric facility or jail. It means you have to stay there even if you do not want to. The law gives some people, such as the police or your doctor, the right to detain you in certain situations. For example, if you're likely to seriously hurt yourself or someone...
A psychiatric assessment is when a psychiatrist observes and listens to a person to figure out if the person has any mental health issues. An assessment is not the same thing as treatment. Treatment involves trying to improve the person's health or stop the person's health from getting worse. But an assessment only involves figuring out...
Treatment is anything a health-care provider does to improve your health or prevent your health from getting worse. This includes things like medicine or drugs, counselling, therapy, or medical care for an illness or injury.
Treatment does not include the time a health-care provider assesses your physical or mental health. It also doesn't...
Records are documents that contain information about something or someone. Health records contain information about your health. Records can be physical documents, such as a doctor's notes on paper, or they can be electronic, such as files stored on a computer.
A Community Treatment Order (CTO) is an official order from a doctor that allows a person who has a serious mental disorder to be treated for it while living at home. Without a CTO, that person would be forced to live in a psychiatric facility and be treated there.
A person has a mental disorder if they have an illness or disability that affects how their mind works. For example, it may affect their thinking, moods, or behaviour.
A health-care provider is a person who takes care of or treats your physical or mental health. For example, a doctor, nurse, therapist, or counsellor. A health-care provider must have a professional license.
The Children's Aid Society (CAS) is an organization that has a legal duty to make sure that children are protected from harm. The government has given them this job. In some places in Ontario, CAS is called Child and Family Services.