APA Dictionary of Psychology

custodial care

Updated on 11/15/2023

care rendered to a patient with prolonged mental or physical disability that includes assisted daily living (e.g., the regular feeding and washing of patients who are non-ambulatory) but typically not mental health services themselves.
incarceration in such institutions as prisons and military correctional facilities that place restrictions on individuals’ liberty under the rules of law and that protect and monitor the individual or protect others from the individual’s violent and harmful tendencies or potential.

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