Chapter 16- Mental Health Services

Question 1

Civil Commitment

Answer 1

being taken into care against your will

Question 2

Criteria for civil commitment

Answer 2

• mental disorder
• danger to self/others
• needs treatment (specific to certain provinces)

Question 3

Right to refuse treatment

Answer 3

• not consistent in all provinces

- Can be overridden in BC

Question 4

2 exceptions to right to refuse treatment

Answer 4

• police power (if the police make you)

- if not acting in own interest

Question 5

Dangerousness

Answer 5

• generally increases if hallucinations/delusions/more than 1 personality disorder
• risk assessment is done
• suicide/self harm

Question 6

Transinstitutionalization

Answer 6

-moving people to nursing homes, group homes, jail instead of asylums

Question 7

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 7

• shutting down asylums

- put a lot of mentally ill people into circumstances they couldn’t handle

Question 8

Battered woman syndrome

Answer 8

when women who’ve been abused kill or harm their abuser

Question 9

Criminal Commitment

Answer 9

people are held bc

• they’ve been accused of a crime and are waiting to be deemed fit for legal proceedings
• they’ve been deemed NCRMD

Question 10

NCRMD

Answer 10

Non criminally responsible due to mental disorder

Question 11

Duty to warn

Answer 11

A clinician’s duty to warn people who are in danger
-clint’s potential victims

-limits confidentiality

Question 12

Patient’s rights

Answer 12

• right to treatment

- right to refuse treatment

Question 13

Two axes

Answer 13

clinical efficacy

-clinical utility