Medical-legal and Social Premises Regarding the Individualization of Taking and Performing Medical Safety Measures Applicable to Both Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric Patients

Abstract

The necessity of implementing of the project “Forensic Mental Healthcare – FMH” in Romania regards the alignment of the internal legislation to the international and European standards regarding the psycho-social and juridical protection of the psychiatric patients, of the family, and the community, as well as the development of the institutional and community practices within the forensic psychiatric field in relation with the field of the social psychiatry. The scope of the FHM project in Romania regards the modifying and fulfilling of the existent legal frame along with the development of the institutional capacity on the principal of sustainability and of the public-private partnership. The feasibility of the project FMH is based on the pre-existence of certain models of social-juridical action – the administration of the community sanctions correlated with the planning and the management of the sanctions and the custodial measures – based on the streamlining of the costs of the medical-legal services and of those pre-existent psycho-social, which would lead to the implementing of a system of interlocking psycho-social and medical services within the psychiatric hospitals continued by special programmes of surveillance and social rehabilitation, and taking the functional inter-institutional collaboration within the community as a leading principle.