CC210 Lecture Notes - Mental Health Professional, Community Mental Health Service, Involuntary Commitment
Document Summary
Longstanding link between mental illness and violence- media exaggeration. Attributable effect of serious mental illness is small. Stressful, impoverished, unpredictable living conditions with little support. Who is at risk for being a victim. Patterns of violence similar whether mental illness present or not. Violence generally aimed at family and friends rather than strangers. 31% calls for service involve mentally ill person (vpd) Failure to develop adequate community mental health services. Forensic means connected to the law or the courts. Mental health and legal systems intersect at many junctures. Risk to self, others, unable to care for self. At the time of the offence suffered from a disease of the mind that prevented the accused from: appreciating the nature and quality of actions or knowing it was wrong. Killed a man who he thought was england"s prime minister, persecutory delusions of gov"t acquitted due t mental illness, committed until death (22 years later)