Chapter 17 Flashcards
What is meant by the assessment of dangerousness?
When patient is considered a threat to themselves or others a call is made and the person is taken by a peace officer to a 72 hour hold.
Potential victims are informed of danger
What is the commitment process?
If a person is a threat to themselves or others due to severe mental illness symptoms they are voluntarily or involuntarily court ordered into inpatient treatment in hospital or outpatient in the community
What is the insanity defence?
An inability to determine between right and wrong
What is deinstitutionalization?
Moving severely mentally ill people out of the large state institutions and then closing part or all of those institutions
Part of the mental illness crisis
What are challenges for the future?
Managed care, deinstitutionalization, insurance, lack of culturally sensitive training
The insanity defence
1. The McNaghten rule
Does the person who did the crime know right from wrong?
The insanity defence
2. The irresistible impulse
Did they have the ability to choose or control their urges?
The insanity defence
3. The Durham rule
Are they not guilty due to mental disease or defect?
The insanity defence
4. American law institute standard
Do they really understand the magnitude of what they have done?
The insanity defence
5. Federal insanity defence reform act
Clear and convincing evidence that the act was committed and that we have proven numbers 1-4
