PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Professional Boundaries, Canadian Psychological Association, Informed Consent
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Week 13: chapter 16 mental health services: legal and ethical issues. Mental health professionals: diagnose and treat people, consider individual rights, consider societal rights. In most jurisdictions permits commitment when the following 3 conditions have been met: the person was shown to have a mental illness, the person was deemed dangerous to self or others, the person was in need of treatment. Laws designed to protect: people who display abnormal behaviour, society. Civil commitment laws fall under provincial or territorial mental health acts: detail when a person can be legally placed in a psychiatric institution (even against will, the government is responsible to care for its citizens. Criteria for civil commitment: mental disorder, danger to him/ herself or others, differences in definition/ interpretation, right to refuse treatment. Dangerousness: hallucinations, delusions, comorbid personality disorder, risk assessment. Sras: suicide, self-harm, assessment of dangerousness = a critical and controversial feature of the civil commitment process.
