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Question 51

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It is believed by many mental health professionals that current concepts of mental health are ____.

A) culture bound
B) insufficient
C) focused too heavily on minority issues
D) focused too heavily on abnormality instead of normality

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An attorney says this to a judge in a civil commitment case: "Your honor, the Supreme Court in 1979 ruled that we cannot deny people their liberty by committing them to mental institutions involuntarily unless we have 'clear and convincing evidence' that they are mentally ill and potentially dangerous." What Supreme Court ruling is the attorney referring to?

A) Addington v.Texas
B) Tarasoff v.Board of Regents of the University of California
C) Wyatt v.Stickney
D) Jackson v.Indiana

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Which case affirmed the right of the mentally ill to receive appropriate treatment and also asserted that physicians and institutions are liable for improper confinements?

Proceedings have begun to have Angelina civilly committed because she is unable to care for herself and does not have the social network to provide for such care.This mean that Angelina is unable to provide which of the following for herself?

A question raised by the Tarasoff ruling is: ____.

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the term insanity?

The purpose of such new verdicts as "guilty, but mentally ill" and "culpable and mentally disabled" is to ____.

Defendant "A" is a serial killer.Defendant "B" is a mass murderer.Based on what we currently are able to predict, what will these two defendants have in common?

An attorney says, "Patients who have been involuntarily confined for treatment have a constitutional right that is supported by cases such as Rouse v.Cameron and Wyatt v.Stickney." What right is the attorney talking about?

Judge Franklin says, "This patient is fully able to care for herself.I recognize her need for psychological care but have decided that she should be placed in a halfway house rather than a state mental hospital." The judge's decision illustrates the principle of ____.

Civil commitment is the reason Hannah was hospitalized against her will.Which of the following is a criterion that could have been used in her civil commitment hearing?

Mr.P.told his therapist that he intends to shoot his ex-wife's new husband, and the therapist kept this information confidential.Lawyers are now suing the therapist because Mr.P.did shoot the new husband, as well as his ex-wife.What legal precedents will the plaintiff's attorneys probably use in the case?

The Durham (1954) decision suggested that insanity was ____.

Since its inception in the 1960s, the impact of deinstitutionalization has been to ____.

Addington v.Texas was a Supreme Court ruling on civil commitment.It changed the standard of proof so that ____.

Working with culturally different clients is unethical unless mental health professionals ____.

A therapist says to her client, "What is said in this room is kept in strict confidence unless there are legal or therapeutic reasons to reveal it.Under most circumstances, though, you have control over what gets disclosed.Unless you give me permission, I will not disclose any confidential information." The therapist is describing the ____.

Most civil commitments are based on which criterion?

Mustafa's family has petitioned the court to have him involuntarily committed.The judge, having decided that Mustafa's mental health should be examined, performs the examination herself. Then, at an informal hearing, Mustafa was not allowed to testify.What part of this story is accurate?

The Addington v.Texas (1979) ruling declared that ____.