Right to Accept and Refuse Psychiatric Treatment Lecture

Question 1

Who first proposed a constitutionally protected right to treatment in the United States?

a. Hillary Clinton.
b. Morton Birnbaum.
c. G.A. Smoot.
d. James Stickney.
e. James Aderholt.

Answer 1

b. Morton Birnbaum.

Question 2

In Youngberg versus Romeo, all the following are true except:

a. Mr. Romeo had a constitutionally protected right to reasonably safe conditions of confinement.
b. Mr. Romeo had a constitutionally protected right to treatment.
c. Mr. Romeo was profoundly retarded.
d. Mr. Romeo had a constitutionally protected right to freedom from unreasonable body restraints.
e. Mr. Romeo had a constitutionally protected right to such minimally adequate training as reasonable to have safe conditions of confinement and freedom from unreasonable body restraints.

Answer 2

b. Mr. Romeo had a constitutionally protected right to treatment.

Question 3

Which of the following is correct in regard to research on involuntary medication treatment refusals?

a. Judges do not override the medication refusal in 30% of cases.
b. In administrative reviews of treatment refusals, treatment refusals, on average, last for 13 days prior to an administrative override.
c. In judicial reviews of treatment refusals, treatment refusals, on average, last for 13 days prior to a judicial override.
d. Psychiatric patients who refuse treatment have lower BPRS scores than non-refusers.

Answer 3

c. In judicial reviews of treatment refusals, treatment refusals, on average, last for 13 days prior to a judicial override.

Question 4

What treatment refusal override principle was relevant in Rennie v. Klein?

a. “Rights Driven” model
b. Involuntary commitment = incompetence to refuse treatment
c. “treatment driven” model

Answer 4

c. “treatment driven” model

Question 5

5. What treatment refusal override principle was relevant? And Rogers versus Commissioner?

a. “Rights Driven” model
b. Involuntary commitment = incompetence to refuse treatment
c. “treatment driven” model

Answer 5

a. “Rights Driven” model

Question 6

6. Which treatment refusal override principle is used in the Utah model?

a. “Rights Driven” model
b. Involuntary commitment = incompetence to refuse treatment
c. “treatment driven” model

Answer 6

b. Involuntary commitment = incompetence to refuse treatment