Week 25

Question 1

Question

Answer 1

Answerer

Question 2

A competent person can refuse treatment but?

Answer 2

Some people suffering from a mental illness may be involuntarily detained

Question 3

Voluntary treatment is?

Answer 3

Always preferred to involuntary

Question 4

what are the two acts associated with mental heath? Which one is current?

Answer 4

Mental Health Act 1974 (Qld); Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld)

Question 5

The Mental Health Act of 1974 defined mental illness as?

Answer 5

No definition; more of a “Common Sense” understanding; Bizarre behaviour may result in detention and liberty rights may be infringed on

Question 6

The Mental Health Act of 2000 defined mental illness as?

Answer 6

A condition characterised by a clinically significant disturbance of thought; mood; perception or memory; however still disagreement over what should be classed as mental illness; and who can be detained.

Question 7

what are the exclusions form the definition of mental illness?

Answer 7

intellectual disability; drug or alcohol use alone; expression of particular religious political moral opinions; race sexual preferences etc.; antisocial / illegal behaviour

Question 8

what are the 6 symptoms needed for an involuntary admission?

Answer 8

1. person suffering from mental illness
2. illness requires immediate treatment
3. treatment available at authorised mental health service
4. illness may give rise to imminent risk of harm to self or others
   OR
   illness may cause the person to suffer serious mental of physical
   deterioration
5. no less restrictive way to treat
6. person lacks capacity to consent
   OR
   has unreasonably refused treatment

Question 9

Psychiatric diagnostic classifications often consist of?

Answer 9

Psychiatric diagnostic classifications often consist of behavioural descriptors; that carry significant evaluative elements; & not reflective of causal explanatory theories.

Question 10

what are four ways to assure human rights of those placed in involuntary treatment?

Answer 10

Balance between deprivation of right to liberty and right to adequate treatment; Retention of rights & dignity under involuntary detention; Minimal restraints compatible with adequate treatment; Review periods and appeals ? Mental Health Tribunal

Question 11

what are four ways to normalise treatment of those placed in involuntary treatment?

Answer 11

treatment plans / doctor patient collaboration; simultaneous management of other medical problems; other (medical) treatment subject to usual requirements eg consent; community treatment opportunities

Question 12

It is more legally straightforward to medically intervene in the life of a patient with anorexia whose life is in imminent danger; than it is in the case of a patient with anorexia who is working and living independently
BECAUSE
the first patient is more likely to satisfy the criteria for involuntary admission to hospital.
A. Assertion is true; Reason is true; Correct causative link.
B. Assertion is true; Reason is true; Incorrect causative link.
C. Assertion is true; Reason is false.
D. Assertion is false; Reason is true.
E. Assertion is false; reason is false.

Answer 12

A. Assertion is true; Reason is true; Correct causative link

Question 13

List four descriptive categories of people who may not lawfully be involuntarily detained in mental health facilities on the basis of inclusion in that category alone.

Answer 13

Any four of:
People with intellectual disabilities
People who use recreational drugs
People who express particular religious; political or moral opinions
People of a particular race
People who express particular sexual preferences
People who behave in an antisocial or illegal manner