Key terms and concepts that may be included in student responses:
▪ Available studies suggest that about one in four admissions to inpatient psychiatric facilities in the United States is involuntary.
▪ 15 to 20 percent of inpatient admissions in European countries are involuntary.
▪ Admissions to state and county mental hospitals are much more likely to be involuntary than admissions to other types of hospitals.
▪ One study indicated that nearly half of the adults admitted voluntarily to inpatient psychiatric facilities said that someone other than themselves had initiated their going to the hospital.
▪ 40 percent of voluntary patients believe they would have been involuntarily committed if they had not volunteered to be hospitalized.