Sentences with phrase «person in a mental institution»

They are like people in mental institutions who hold strange beliefs despite all the evidence to the contrary.

It is also possible, but very rare, to bring a civil action seeking a writ of habeas corpus to determine if someone held in the custody of a private person (e.g. a child in the care of an adult, or a person in a mental institution) is being held lawfully.

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Mentally disturbed people who were victims of syphilis were, in earlier times, the primary inhabitants of our mental institutions.

Research with such churches as this will clarify the general role of religious institutions in developing the mental health of involved persons.

On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

Based on the book by Matthew Quick, the story centers on Pat Peoples (a tracksuit and Philadelphia Eagles jersey - wearing Bradley Cooper), a former high school teacher who, after being released from a four - year stint in a mental institution, moves back in with his mother, then seeks to put his life back together.

As used in this paragraph, a «Covered Borrower» means any person who, at the time such person becomes obligated on a loan transaction or establishes an account for consumer credit, satisfies the requirements under any one or more of the following classifications, or is otherwise under applicable laws deemed to be a «Covered Borrower» under the Military Lending Act, 10 U.S. Code Section 987: (a) An active duty member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force or Coast Guard, or a person serving on active Guard and Reserve duty (a person described in this clause (a) of the definition of «Covered Borrower» is hereinafter referred to as a «Service Member»); or (b) Any of the following persons, relative to a Service Member: (1) The spouse; (2) A child under the age of 21; or (3) If dependent on the Service Member for more than one half of such person's support, any one or more of the following persons: (i) A child under the age of 23 enrolled in a full time course of study at an institution of higher learning; (ii) A child of any age incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred before attaining age 23 while such person was dependent on the Service Member; (iii) Any unmarried person placed in legal custody of the Service Member who resides with such Service Member unless separated by military service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's household.

Service dogs who accompany their owners to comfort people in hospitals, retirement homes, schools, mental institutions, nursing homes and disaster areas are called therapy dogs.

Provide affection and comfort to people in hospitals, nursing homes, retirement homes, mental institutions, schools, etc..

Therapy dogs provide comfort and affection and improve the general well - being of people in hospitals, nursing homes, mental institutions, retirement homes, schools, and even prisons.

Some 180,000 people with, mental health difficulties in the extended Europe are still cared for in institutions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have historically been subject to much more misdiagnosis, mistreatment, incarceration and coercion than other Australians in the hands of psychiatric institutions, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

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Historically, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have suffered much more incarceration, inappropriate diagnoses and treatments, and more control than care in the hands of mental health professionals, facilities and institutions.