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Resource Document on Approaches to Address Patient Access to Important Personal Items While Psychiatrically Hospitalized

Approved by the Joint Reference Committee, June 2024.

  • 2024

This resource document is a guide for psychiatrists to use to evaluate and manage patient access to personal items during inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Differences between types of psychiatric hospitals, including civil, forensic, child and adolescent, and long-term state hospitals will be reviewed.

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