PSYC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Diminished Capacity, Involuntary Commitment, Intellectual Disability
11 May 2018
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Civil Commitment Laws
Legal proceedings that determine a person is mentally disordered and may be
hospitalized, even involuntarily.
Clinical Efficacy (axis)
One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions on the
evidence of their effectiveness.
Clinical Utility (axis)
One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions by
whether they can be applied effectively and cost effectively in real clinical
settings.
Competency
Ability of legal defendants to participate in their own defense and understand the
charges and the roles of the trial participants.
Criminal Commitment
Legal procedure by which a person found not guilty of a crime by reason of
insanity must be confined in a psychiatric hospital.
Dangerousness
Tendency to violence that, contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among
mental patients.
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Deinstitutionalization
Systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or intellectual disability
from institutions like psychiatric hospitals.
Diminished Capacity
Evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes criminal charges
against them requiring intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses
requiring only reckless or criminal neglect.
Duty to warn
Mental health professional's responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the
potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened.
Expert Witness
Person who because of special training and experience is allowed to offer opinion
testimony in legal trials.
Informed Consent
Ethical requirement whereby research subjects agree to participate in a study
only after they receive full disclosure about the nature of the study and their own
role in it.
Insanity
Legal rather than psychological or medical concept involving both a psychological
disorder and an inability to know or appreciate the wrongfulness of criminal acts.
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