Legal Issues

Question 1

What conditions need to be met in order to civilly commit someone?

Answer 1

1- have a mental disorder
2- be an imminent danger to themselves or others

Question 2

What are the legal rights of individuals with a mental illness? (5)

Answer 2

right to freedom, right to refuse treatment, right to treatment, right to privacy & right to fair legal proceedings

Question 3

When can confidential information be disclosed?

Answer 3

1- treatment team
2- protection of others at risk for harm
3- patient is a risk to themselves
4- written consent by the client

Question 4

What is considered child abuse? Elder abuse?

Answer 4

CA: physical, emotional, neglect, sexual, abandonment, truancy (school), behavioural problems
EA: physical, sexual, financial, emotional and neglect

Question 5

Describe the sequence of event and possibilities from the time a person with a mental illness has been arrested until their conviction

Answer 5

psychiatric evaluation, fit, set trial or bait, trial, verdict, sentence
psychiatric evaluation, unfit, either forced to treatment until trial, receive treatment in community or conditional discharge

Question 6

What happens when a person is found unfit to stand trial?

Answer 6

1- criminal commitment
2- order for treatment
3- conditional discharge

Question 7

What conditions need to be met for a person to be found NCRMD?

Answer 7

either they did not know what they were doing or they did not know it was wrong

Question 8

What happens when a person is found NCRMD?

Answer 8

1- criminal commitment (psychiatric hospital)
2- conditional discharge (conditions)
3- absolute discharge (charges are dropped)

Question 9

When could a person be held in a psychiatric hospital against their will? How long would they stay?

Answer 9

needed for the well being of the person and/or surrounding people, until they are no longer a danger