An adult diagnosed with mental illness was brought by police to the emergency department. The adult was wandering in the communi
ty, wearing provocative clothing, yelling obscenities, and threatening to shoot the mayor. Which behavior most clearly meets criteria for involuntary hospitalization of this adult?
Involuntary hospitalization occurs when a person who has mental illness or disorder and is been accurately deemeds by a qualified medical practitioners or an agent to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is been ordered by a court into treatment in a psychiatric hospital due to the fact that the person presents a clear and present danger to themselves and to others as well as in a situation where such persons or individuals are refusing needed treatment whether or not they are considered to be dangerous which was why THREATS TO SHOOT THE MAYOR is the behavior that most clearly meets criteria for involuntary hospitalization of this adult because the mental disorder person can inflict pain, injury, damage to the mayor.
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