The Role of the Lawyer in Mental Health Advocacy

  • Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
  • September 1976,
  • 4
  • (3)
  • 204-215;
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Footnotes

  • * The paper was presented at the AAPL annual meeting in San Fransisco, October 22, 1976.

    The material in the paper is related to that in “The Mental Health Advocate — The New Jersey Experience,” by Michael L. Perlin and Stanley Van Ness, here adapted with permission from the National Institute of Mental Health. The latter paper will soon appear as a chapter in Mental Health Advocacy: An Emerging Force in Consumer Rights. edited by Louis E. Kopolow, M.D.

  • ** Mr. Perlin is Director and Dr. Siggers is Supervisor of Field Representatives of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy, Department of the Public Advocate, 10-12 North Stockton Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08625.

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