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Position statement on active treatment.

PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT is a planned effort on behalf of persons defined either by themselves or by their community as mentally ill or emotionally disturbed and in need of treatment. The person directing it must be qualified by specialized education and training to evaluate and understand the totality of the biological, psychological, and social factors that play a part in such an illness. Treatment is provided through medical procedures designed to benefit the ill penson. 1 . Treatment may begin prior to the establishment of a final diagnosis. The process of evaluation is an act of treatment. 2. The standards used by a community to judge behavior may not always be in agreement with the standards leading to a diagnosis used by a psychiatrist to judge behavior. For example, some peoplejudged by community standards to be ‘ ‘bad’ ‘ rather than ill may suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. On the other hand, some persons whose behavior is identified as aberrant by a given community may be perceived by the psychiatrist as following an alternative lifestyle and not as suffering from an illness. 3. As in physical illness, an individual’s subjective distress may in itself be sufficient justification for treatment. 4. Psychiatric disorders result from the complex interaction of physical, psychological, and social factors and