What are the elements of a mental health assessment for self-inflicted injuries?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Irwin v. City of Hemet, 22 Cal.App.4th 507, 27 Cal.Rptr.2d 433 (Cal. App. 1994):
The first element concerns the degree of the risk of harm inherent in the detainee's condition: the detainee must have had a particular vulnerability to or tendency toward suicide which created a strong likelihood, rather than a mere possibility, that self-inflicted harm would occur. (Colburn v. Upper Darby Tp. (3d Cir.1991) 946 F.2d 1017, 1023-1024.)
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