Declaration for Mental Health Treatment (DMHT)

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Documents

Effective Date: 6/2024

declarartion-for-mental-health-treatment-english-dmht.pdf
declarartion-for-mental-health-treatment-spanish-dmht.pdf

Instructions

Updated: 9/2017

Purpose

This document allows you to make decisions in advance about mental health treatment and specifically three types of mental health treatment: psychoactive medication, convulsive therapy and emergency mental health treatment. The instructions that you include in this declaration will be followed only if a court believes that you are incapacitated to make treatment decisions. Otherwise, you will be considered able to give or withhold consent for the treatments.