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2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

The Impact of Detainee Sex on the Type of Psychiatric-Involuntary Hold in Psychosis-Related Police Reports

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Natalie Anden
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Elicia Lastra
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Zorba Herbert
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Christopher Weaver
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Rosemary Reynolds
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Collin Myers
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Brittany Sharma
    Palo Alto University - Palo Alto, CA

Abstract

This study explores how detainee sex and psychosis relate to the type of police-issued psychiatric-involuntary holds. There were 120 reports (55 with psychosis). Analysis revealed an association between hold type and the psychosis presence, but not a significant association between hold type and detainee sex.

Psychopathology

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