Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Community Mental Health Service, Intellectual Disability, Learned Helplessness

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Chapter 16 mental health services: legal & ethical. Only the person has the power to admit themselves unless in danger of doing. Family has no power to admit someone to a psychiatric harm to self/others. Arthur had a brief psychotic disorder no chronic. Mental health professions must diagnose and treat people and consider individual and societal rights and responsibilities. Ethics and legal system change with time and with shifting societal & political perspectives on mental illnesses. As public opinion of people with mental illness changes, so do laws affecting them. Legal and ethical issues have effects on research and practice complementary. Confidentiality required to protect identity of participant in a research study and a patient seeking help for a psychological disorder. Laws designed to protect people & society sometimes in favour of person & sometimes society. Rights of people pitted against responsibility of government to care for citizens.

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