processes criminal cases involving people with serious mental illnesses, and aims to ameliorate the incarceration and recidivism of people with mental illness by linking them to the mental health services and supports that might have prevented their arrest in the first place.
What are mental health courts?
100
trauma has these types of long term effects on the brains of healthy individuals.
What are (1) bilateral amygdala activity to fear and (2) other neurobiological changes in the brain?
100
The general terms for a variety of processes available for the resolution of disputes other than through traditional litigation.
What is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)?
100
this was designed for survivors of domestic violence to offer an important alternative to living with an abusive parnter and as a resource for many battered women.
What are Transitional Housing Programs?
100
following a terror attack, may survivors suffer this psychological disturbance, which is accompanied by a heightened sense of vulnerability and an avoidance of anything related to the trauma.
What is pan phobia?
200
this many people with severe mental illnesses are incarcerated at any given moment
What is 250,000
200
rapid eye movements and short exposure to traumatic material and restructured new material leading to cognitive restructuring.
What is Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)?
200
When the parties talk to each other informally to try to resolve their differences.
What is Negotiation?
200
Psychopaths who participate in therapy are actually more likely to engage in this activity following treatment, than psychopaths who did not receive such treatment.
What is violent crime?
200
According to the APA, this percentage of soldiers meet the criteria for a mental disorder.
What is 30%?
300
where the aversive stimuli is applied in vivo or in real life
What is overt sensitization?
300
aversive stimulus is imagined by the subject in vitro
What is covert sensitization?
300
one form of negotiation that involves the use of a third party to facilitate reaching a settlement. The third party cannot impose a settlement.
What is Mediation?
300
Treatment options include these, for parents who physically abuse their children (not sexually):
What are (1) parenting classes, (2) anger management, (3) parent-child interaction therapy, and (4) cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
300
These four preventive actions can help reduce the stressful impact of military deployment.
What are (1) education, (2) reduce stigma, (3) more research, and (4)increase psychologists in armed forces?
400
The Hearts Model includes these 6 elements.
What are History, emotions, asking, reason, teaching, self-change?
400
a person's relapse into criminal behavior
What is Recidivism?
400
an adjudicatory process by which a third party decides the outcome of the dispute - her decision is binding on all parties and may be enforced through contract law.
What is Arbitration?
400
Treatment options include these , for child sexual abuse offenders:
What are (1) sensitization, (2) satiation, (3) cognitive behavioral programs, (4) antiandrogens, (5) central hormonal agents, (6) surgical castration.
400
If a person lacks the mental capacity to meaningfully participate in her defense, the judicial system attempts to do this to allow the trial of the defendant to continue.
What is Restoring Psychological Competency?
500
interferes with the action of testosterone and is not approved for use in the US.
What is the Antiandrogen: cyproterone acetate (CPA)?
500
interferes with the action of testosterone and is approved in the US.
What is the Antiandrogen: edroxyprog-esterone acetate (DepoProvera)?
500
These types of women are much more likely to have negative shelter experiences and to believe that shelters are for others.
Who are lesbians?
500
These are some of the cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies:
What are psycho-education, relaxation, art therapy, individual therapy?
500
Both of these situations may by themselves or together cause a determination that the defendant was incompetent to stand trial: