History
In the sixteenth century, this institution provided care to persons with mental disorders. Some people called it a prison.
What is asylum?
Interventions that directly or indirectly stimulate the brain in order to bring about psychological improvement.
What is brain stimulation?
It must accurately measure what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
NGRI stands for...
What is not guilty by reason of insanity?
The branch of psychology concerned with intersections between psychological practice and research and the judicial system.
What is Forensic Psychology?
The first known mental health professional in the United States.
What is a Psychiatrist?
What is Psychodynamic Model?
This is used to determine whether, how, and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped.
What is a clinical assessment?
A legal test that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if, because of a mental disorder, they did not know the nature of the act or did not know right from wrong.
What is M'Nagthen test?
The four levels of Intellectual Disability.
What is mild, moderate, severe, and profound?
Health care coverage in which the insurance company largely controls the nature, scope, and cost of medical psychological services.
What is managed care programs?
Rooted in classical and operant conditioning.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy.
The most commonly used personality assessment
What is the MMPI?
A legal process by which a person can be forced to undergo mental health treatment.
What is civil commitment?
The leading known cause for Intellectual Disability.
What is low birth weight?
While many definitions of abnormality have been proposed over the years, none has won total acceptance. Most have common features including "the four D's", which are:
What is deviance, distress, dysfunction & danger?
External pressures of cultural conflicts is the cause of dysfunction, according to this model:
What is Multicultural?
"Jon presented with a flat affect. He made poor eye contact and often asked "if we were finished". He wore a long fur coat, although the temperature read 75 degrees."
What is a mental status?
The principle that therapists must break confidentiality in order to protect a person who may be the intended victim of a client.
What is the Duty to protect?
The case to determine the duty to protect law.
What is Tarasoff case?
Two types of clinical research includes:
What is case study, observational, and/or experimental.
A humanistic approach developed by Fritz Perls in which clinicians actively move clients toward self-recognition and self-acceptance by using techniques such as role playing and self-discovery exercises.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
The two types of diagnostic information organized in the DSM-5.
What is categorical and dimensional information?
Mental health and legal professionals cross paths in three out of four ways:
DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
The key concept to keep in mind when determining the definition of abnormal behavior.
What is context?