Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 4240
Families of Persons With a Serious Mental Health Disorder
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2011
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The symptoms and behaviors of persons with serious mental disorders may cause severe disruption of normal family relationships.
(a) The symptoms and behaviors of persons with a serious mental health disorder may cause severe disruption of normal family relationships.
(b) Families are often the principal caregivers, housing providers, and case managers for family members with serious mental disorders.
(b) Families are often the principal caregivers, housing providers, and case managers for family members with a serious mental health disorder.
(c) Families of persons with serious mental disorders more often than not have little or no legal authority over their adult mentally disordered and sometimes difficult to manage family members and consequently need advice, skills, emotional support, and guidance to cope with the stressful burden of caregiving in order to be effective and helpful.
(c) Families of persons with a serious mental health disorder more often than not have little or no legal authority over their adult family members with a mental health disorder who are sometimes difficult to manage. Consequently, they need advice, skills, emotional support, and guidance to cope with the stress of caregiving in order to be effective and helpful.
(d) Involved families are of inestimable value to the publicly funded and professionally operated state and county mental health system and programs emphasizing self-help can be the best way to assist families in maintaining the cohesion of family life while caring for and assisting a mentally disordered family member.
(d) Involved families are of inestimable value to the publicly funded and professionally operated state and county mental health system and programs emphasizing self-help can be the best way to assist families in maintaining the cohesion of family life while caring for and assisting a family member with a mental health disorder.
(e) Since the state’s mental health resources are limited and are increasingly being directed on a priority basis toward provision of services to persons with serious mental disorders, informed and active families helping one another can effectively extend and amplify the value of state mental health dollars.
(e) Since the state’s mental health resources are limited and are increasingly being directed on a priority basis toward provision of services to persons with a serious mental health disorder, informed and active families helping one another can effectively extend and amplify the value of state mental health dollars.
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