Civil Commitment
The formal process of civil commitment begins with a petition directed to who?
A judge
What does "GBMI" stand for?
What does "NGRI" stand for?
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
What term is used to describe someone faking or grossly exaggerating symptoms?
malingering
True or False: there are protection and advocacy agencies in each state to investigate the abuse or neglect of individuals in mental health treatment.
True, they act as a legal advocate for the client
What does it mean to be gravely disabled within the civil commitment law?
unable to care for self
What is the use of social science to study the extent to which the law promotes the psychological and physical well-being of the people it affects?
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
True or False: 50% of the population believe too many people escape responsibility for their crimes by pleading insanity
False: 90%
When a professional testifies on their knowledge, research, or evaluations to a jury, they are in what type of role?
Expert Witness
True or False: a client can refuse treatment
What type of authority takes over and acts as a surrogate parent if a person is not acting in his or her own best interest?
parens patriae (The state government)
Which supreme court case ruling added to the competence to stand trial in addition to orientation to time and place and some recollection of events?
Dusky vs United States in 1960
Following the not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) verdict for John Hinckley in 1981, _______ of the states in the U.S. substantially changed their insanity defense rules making it more difficult to use this defense.
75%
What legal standard was the result of the Tarasoff vs Regents of the University of California case?
A therapist's duty to warn
Minimum standards in which a mental health facility has to follow; including staff-to-client ratio, number of toilets and showers per client, and providing proof of efforts towards goals in the least-restrictive alternative, is considered a person's right to what?
Right to treatment
True/False: Deinstitutionalization is considered a failure because it did not result in more community care.
True. Patients were sent to nursing homes, or ended up in jails or homeless due to the lack of community care and resources for those that were removed from state hospitals.
Compentence to stand trial a person must able to understand the charges against them and:
They also must be able to assist with their own defense.
True or False: According to the ruling of Durham v. United States (1954), someone who committed a crime related to a gambling addiction could successfully be found not guilty by reason of insanity using the Durham Rule.
Yes: Insanity Defense due to mental illness and mental defect. Federal and most state courts abandoned this rule in 1972.
What is the term for a treatment that has been determined effective by the clinical efficacy axis?
Evidence-based practice
What is required before a person participants in treatment or research?
Informed consent agreeing to the treatment or research
In Supreme Court rulings such as O'Connor v. Donaldson and Addington v. Texas, it was argued that the criteria for involuntary commitment should include mental illness and:
dangerous
True or False: Can a person can be "forced" to become competent to stand trial?
Yes: Washington vs. Harper 1990 a mental health professional can argue the benefits of medication to client and society, leading to “Court Ordered” medication management.
What rule was used primarily based if a person could not distinguish between right from wrong?
M'Naghten Rule
What does HIPPA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
What is the treatment program Shante led in her previous career as a therapist before becoming an instructor?
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)