PSY 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: American Law Institute, Intellectual Disability, Liberty Professionals F.C.
8 Mar 2016
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Legal basis to deprive of liberty violent acts. Professionals must be knowledgeable of risk factors associated with. Therapist has responsibility to breach confidentiality and inform third party if client poses a threat to self or others. Need to consider balance between safety and liberty. Advent of computer assisted psychological assessment has reopened interest in this debate. Should we use actuarial like methods to make clinical judgements or should we use training and experience to make clinical judgements. When pitted against each other, actuarial methods are about 10% better. Defendant"s ability to understand charges and defendants ability to assist in their own defense. In this sense what does competency affect. Right to choose counsel, right to aid in trail, right to serve as witness on own behalf, right to confront opposing witnesses, right to correct discrepancies. Judge previous estimate as to mindset of persons mindset. Age (17 and under), 1) intellectual disability, 2) insanity, 3) debilitating.
