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Reliance on Risk Assessments Questioned as Suicide Awareness Month Ends

Reliance on Risk Assessments Questioned as Suicide Awareness Month Ends

by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Suicide

September is nationally recognized as Suicide Awareness Month and the stated intention of this campaign is to “inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide prevention and warning signs of suicide”. [1] Each year one solution offered up...
Watchdog CCHR to Host a Baker Act Rights Seminar for World Mental Health Day

Watchdog CCHR to Host a Baker Act Rights Seminar for World Mental Health Day

by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights

During a meeting of the Children’s Baker Act Task Force, it was revealed that a significant number of children sent for an involuntary psychiatric examination did not meet the criteria to be taken into custody. Unfortunately, this is not new information. The mental...
Almost 410,000 Reached in a Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights

Almost 410,000 Reached in a Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights

by CCHR Florida | Sep 24, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Parental Rights

Viewed as a statewide problem, the number of children sent for involuntary psychiatric examinations, called a Baker Act, has been steadily climbing for almost two decades and with many parents only finding out their child has been taken into custody after the fact, it...
Mental Health Watchdog Applauds Call for Independent Enquiry into Electroconvulsive Therapy

Mental Health Watchdog Applauds Call for Independent Enquiry into Electroconvulsive Therapy

by CCHR Florida | Sep 15, 2020 | ECT, Legislation

According to a post published in Psychology Today by John Read, Ph.D., a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, “forty experts (including researchers, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals” have written the Minister for Health...
Evidence Points to Misuse of the Baker Act with Devastating Results for Children

Evidence Points to Misuse of the Baker Act with Devastating Results for Children

by CCHR Florida | Sep 9, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Legislation, Parental Rights

As reported in multiple news stories, a recently released 85-page study found that “the Baker Act is increasingly being used on school children who make jokes, act out, exhibit normal manifestations of a known disability, or express ordinary sadness.” This same study...
Watchdog Calls into Question Reliance on Risk Assessments During Suicide Awareness Month

Watchdog Calls into Question Reliance on Risk Assessments During Suicide Awareness Month

by CCHR Florida | Sep 1, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Each year September is recognized as Suicide Awareness Month with September 6th through the 12th observed as National Suicide Prevention Week. The stated intention of these campaigns is to “inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide...
Watchdog Campaign to Restore Parental Rights Reaches Over 370,000

Watchdog Campaign to Restore Parental Rights Reaches Over 370,000

by CCHR Florida | Aug 25, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights, Rights

Recognized across the state for helping parents whose children have been taken to a psychiatric facility for involuntary examination under Florida’s mental health law, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) launched a public information campaign earlier this...
Florida Psychiatrist Convicted of Disability Fraud and Tax Evasion

Florida Psychiatrist Convicted of Disability Fraud and Tax Evasion

by CCHR Florida | Aug 23, 2020 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse

Evaded Paying Taxes on Over $1.6 Million in Income Earned While Claiming to be Disabled Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs – Tuesday, April 30, 2019 “A South Florida doctor residing in Hobe Sound, Florida, was sentenced to 51 months in prison...
Florida Getting $3.7 Million Following a Multistate Health Care Investigation

Florida Getting $3.7 Million Following a Multistate Health Care Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Aug 22, 2020 | Fraud, Universal Health Services

By FLORIDA DAILY  – 07.24.20   “On Thursday, state Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that Florida will receive millions of dollars following a massive multi-state health care fraud investigation. Florida, along with 49 states, territories and...
Staffer sexually abused 19-year-old at Tampa Community Hospital, lawsuit says

Staffer sexually abused 19-year-old at Tampa Community Hospital, lawsuit says

by CCHR Florida | Aug 20, 2020 | Baker Act, Mental Illness, Rights

The woman, who was not named in the lawsuit, was admitted on June 3, 2018 to undergo a mental health evaluation. She was then sexually groomed and abused by employee Frank Lasso during her five-day stay, according to the lawsuit. It was filed in Hillsborough Circuit...
Mental Health Fraud Exacts High Human and Financial Costs

Mental Health Fraud Exacts High Human and Financial Costs

by CCHR Florida | Aug 19, 2020 | Fraud

Mental Health Fraud Exacts High Human and Financial Costs March 11, 2016 Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ “The United States loses approximately $100 billion to healthcare fraud annually. Up to $20 billion dollars are due to fraudulent practices in the mental...
Study Reveals that Anxiety, Depression and PTSD may be Adaptive Responses to Adversity Not Mental Disorders

Study Reveals that Anxiety, Depression and PTSD may be Adaptive Responses to Adversity Not Mental Disorders

by CCHR Florida | Aug 19, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

As reported in an article in Forbes titled, Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders At All, a recent study questioned the validity of labeling depression, anxiety and even ADHD as mental disorders. [1] The researchers in the study based their...
Recent Study Calls Psychological Assessments “Junk Science”

Recent Study Calls Psychological Assessments “Junk Science”

by CCHR Florida | Aug 12, 2020 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights

In a campaign to remove the stigma attached to mental illness, advocates have created numerous observance days, weeks and months which is why August is known as “National Health Center Week”. This observance week focuses on treatment and education with the underlying...
Mental Health Watchdog Reaches Over 330,000 in Campaign to Protect Parental Rights

Mental Health Watchdog Reaches Over 330,000 in Campaign to Protect Parental Rights

by CCHR Florida | Aug 4, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Parental Rights

Recognized across the state for their work in helping parents whose children have been taken to a psychiatric facility for involuntary examination under Florida’s mental health law, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has launched a social media campaign...
Tens of Thousands of Children Detained for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination Annually

Tens of Thousands of Children Detained for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination Annually

by CCHR Florida | Jul 29, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Parental Rights

The number of children taken into custody for an involuntary psychiatric examination has been steadily increasing in Florida for almost two decades and according to the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), this steady increase is...
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