New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:1 – Purpose and Policy
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I. The purpose of this chapter is to enable the department of health and human services to:
(a) Establish, maintain, and coordinate a comprehensive, effective, and efficient system of services for persons with mental illness.
(b) Reduce the occurrence, severity and duration of mental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities.
(c) Prevent mentally ill persons from harming themselves or others.
II. It is the policy of this state to provide to persons who are severely mentally disabled adequate and humane care which, to the extent possible while meeting the purposes of habilitation and treatment, is:
(a) Within each person‘s own community.
(b) Least restrictive of the person’s freedom of movement and ability to function normally in society while being appropriate to the person’s individual capacity.
(c) Directed toward eliminating the need for services and promoting the person’s independence.
III. It is the policy of this state that mental illness in and of itself is insufficient to involuntarily admit any person into the mental health services system.
(a) Establish, maintain, and coordinate a comprehensive, effective, and efficient system of services for persons with mental illness.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:1
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- Mental illness: means a substantial impairment of emotional processes, or of the ability to exercise conscious control of one's actions, or of the ability to perceive reality or to reason, when the impairment is manifested by instances of extremely abnormal behavior or extremely faulty perceptions. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Severely mentally disabled: means having a mental illness which is either so acute or of such duration as to cause a substantial impairment of a person's ability to care for himself or to function normally in society in accordance with rules authorized by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- Treatment: means examination, diagnosis, training, rehabilitation therapy, pharmaceuticals, and other services provided to clients in the mental health services system. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
(b) Reduce the occurrence, severity and duration of mental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities.
(c) Prevent mentally ill persons from harming themselves or others.
II. It is the policy of this state to provide to persons who are severely mentally disabled adequate and humane care which, to the extent possible while meeting the purposes of habilitation and treatment, is:
(a) Within each person‘s own community.
(b) Least restrictive of the person’s freedom of movement and ability to function normally in society while being appropriate to the person’s individual capacity.
(c) Directed toward eliminating the need for services and promoting the person’s independence.
III. It is the policy of this state that mental illness in and of itself is insufficient to involuntarily admit any person into the mental health services system.