Mental Health Services: Legal and Ethical Issues Flashcards
Legal proceedings that determine a person is mentally disordered and may be hospitalized, even involuntarily.
civil commitment laws
Term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the causes of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process.
mental illness
Tendency to violence that, contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among mental patients.
dangerousness
Systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or intellectual disability from institutions like psychiatric hospitals.
deinstitutionalization
Movement of people with severe mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to smaller group residences.
transinstitutionalization
Evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes criminal charges against them requiring intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses
requiring only reckless or criminal neglect.
diminished capacity
Evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes criminal charges against them requiring intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses requiring only reckless or criminal neglect.
diminished capacity
Ability of legal defendants to participate in their own defense and understand the charges and the roles of the trial participants.
competence
Mental health professional’s responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened.
duty to warn
Person who because of special training and experience is allowed to offer opinion testimony in legal trials.
expert witnesses
One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions on the evidence of their effectiveness (compare with clinical utility axis).
clinical efficacy axis
One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions by whether they can be applied effectively and cost effectively in real clinical settings (compare with clinical efficacy axis).
clinical utility axis
