Voluntary

• Voluntary Admission: Individual who applies for Admission to the agency and is accepted as a patient. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-304.) 
• Court Voluntary: The court orders the agency to accept the individual as a voluntary patient. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-308)

Involuntary

• Court Commitment: A court order under the Mental Health Code requires the individual to receive services involuntarily from the agency. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Sections 5-212, 5-401, 5-402, 5-405, 9-102)
• Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity (NGRI): An individual who is acquitted of a criminal act on the ground that he/she was insane at the time of the act. Individual may then be court committed to the agency under the Mental Health Code. Court must be notified 20 days prior to proposed discharge. In some facilities this is categorized as a District Court commitment. (Criminal Statutes Titles 22, 1161)
• Order Of Detention: Court orders an individual to be detained in a detention facility for no longer than 72 hours, excluding weekends and holidays, pending court hearing. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-401.B)
• Court Order For Observation And Evaluation: The court requires the agency to examine the individual in a specified period of time to determine if the individual is competent to stand trial.
• Emergency Detention: Patient arrival at a detention facility from a point of emergency examination with three (3) required forms: a) Petition; b) Licensed Mental Health Professional's Statement; c) Peace Officer's Affidavit. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-209)
• Continued Court Detention: Patient has been evaluated at a detention facility. He/she has the three (3) required forms (listed above) and an order has been issued for additional detention. Time and place of hearing has been set. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-212)
  Twenty-eight Day Court Commitment: Patient has been certified by the court for involuntary treatment for a period not to exceed twenty-eight (28) days. (Mental Health Law Title 43A, Section 5-212)
• Court Referred: A court may order an individual to seek and receive services in order to fulfill some part of their sentencing or in lieu of jail detention. However this is NOT a court commitment. Examples of court referred individuals include, but are not limited to DUI offenders, batterers sentenced to treatment, individuals in a community sentencing program and DHS child custody cases.
• Criminal Hold (CR-H): Adjudicated by the court to be incompetent, but capable of achieving competency (22 O.S. § 1175.6(2))
• Court Commit With Hold (CC-H): Adjudicated by the court to be incompetent and incapable of achieving competency within a reasonable time (22 O.S. § 1175.6(3))