Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cavanagh was helped into office initially by Detroit's half million Negroes, who were bitterly resentful of shoddy treatment by previous administrations and rough handling by a virtually all-white police force. His first step as mayor was to make a humanitarian Michigan Supreme Court Justice his police commissioner. The city began hiring and promoting more Negro police, integrated two-man patrol cars for the first time; and the police commissioner supervised meetings with Negro groups to discuss police problems. Cavanagh appointed a Negro city controller, highest appointive office ever held by a Negro in Detroit...
...Safeguards. To meet the challenge, New York has adopted what is probably the most advanced mental-health code in the country. As a step toward reducing the state's high involuntary commitment rate (60%), the code obliges officials to stress voluntary treatment-for example, by voluntary hospitalization for a maximum 15 days. In addition, the code rings elaborate safeguards around involuntary commitments. Spouses, parents, children, relatives, friends, employers or the state itself may request involuntary commitment, but every request must be approved by two physicians and one staff psychiatrist. Full commitment does not take place until the patient...
...them more efficiently and more cheaply. When the publishers bargained with the New York Typographical Union last spring, they agreed to give the printers a veto over the installation of any new automation equipment, a decision they have already come to regret. For now the Guild is demanding equal treatment...
...seventh year of research under grants from the National Institutes of Health. Novel new projects have begun, and one task force is now studying the extent to which athletes use the psychiatric service--focusing on the kind of sport in which each person engages and the length, type, and treatment of his illness...
...those who desire it, to aid in the resolution of crisis situations based on emotional disturbances that may arise anywhere in the University, to furnish brief psycho-therapy to those who may readily aurmount their difficulties with timely help, and to aid those in need of long term treatment to find a suitable therapist. Many students who need extended treatment and cannot obtain it else where are treated in the Department to the extent that available time permits...