Chapter 15 - Legal And Ethical Issues

Question 1

Canadian psychological associations code of ethics

Answer 1

Guides the behaviour of psychologists

Question 2

Dr. Smith research on psychotherapy

Answer 2

Look this up

Question 3

Ethical practice of psychology

Answer 3

Beneficence, non maleficence 
Fidelity and responsibility 
Integrity
Justice
Respect for people's rights

Question 4

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 4

Beds decreased 78% between 1962 and 1977
Problems emerged by 1979
Reasons for failure?
Homelessness increase

Question 5

Homelessness

Answer 5

33-73% have psych
Schizophrenia at greatest risk after deinstitutionalization
Comorbidity with drug and alcohol

Question 6

Civil commitment

Answer 6

Involuntary treatment made by government on people who present danger to themselves and others
Also outpatient commitment

Question 7

Criminal commitment

Answer 7

Court ordered that forces involuntary treatment in person with psych who commits a crime

Question 8

NGRI

Answer 8

Not guilty by reason of insanity

Used in 1% of felony cases successful 15-25%

Question 9

M’Naghten rule

Answer 9

England 1843 not guilty of crime if they didn’t know their actions were wrong

Question 10

Mens rea

Answer 10

Latin term for guilty mind

Question 11

GEI

Answer 11

Guilty except insane

Question 12

Andre Dallaire

Answer 12

34 broke into PM’s house

Paranoid schizophrenia, found NCRMD

Question 13

Blair Donnelly

Answer 13

48 male
Stabbed daughter to death
Manic episode, found NCRMD

Question 14

Luca Magnotta

Answer 14

Murdered student, convicted, fled Canada

BPD? Failed plea of NCRMD

Question 15

Fitness to stand trial

Answer 15

If they can’t assist in their own defence, considered incompetent to stand trial

Question 16

Kenneth Bianci

Answer 16

Hillside strangler claimed MPD, was lying

Dr. Martin Orne conducted research in hypnosis, memory, lie detection

Question 17

Duty to warn

Answer 17

Reasonable care to protect third parties from dangers posed by patients
Tarasoff decision
Based on belief that mental health clinicians can predict human behaviour

Question 18

Licensing

Answer 18

To practice therapy, must adhere to the laws and codes of ethics
Must attend continuing education

Question 19

Rights of participants in research

Answer 19

Nuremberg code (voluntary consent)
Experiment must be conducted by qualified individuals
Discontinue participation at any time
Declaration of Helsinki
Belmont report
Informed consent
Institutional review board

Question 20

Tuskegee Experiment

Answer 20

400 poor black men with syphilis

Penicillin in 1947, denied treatment

Question 21

KKI lead paint study provided testing not treatment Baltimore

Answer 21

Offered benefit to those already living in house with lead paint
IRB did not consider all the risks to the patients
Harmful to group moved

Question 22

Psychologist ability to predict violence

Answer 22

A little better than chance

Question 23

Psychologists in custody evaluations, percent of ethics complaints

Answer 23

35%