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AP #3
Abnormal Psychology Exam 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civil commitment laws | legal proceedings that determine a person is mentally disordered and may be hospitalized, even involuntarily |
| mental illness | term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but lesspreferred because it implies that the causes of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process |
| dangerousness | tendency to violence that, contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among mental patients |
| deinstitutionalization | systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or mental retardation from institutions like psychiatric hospitals |
| transinstitutionalization | movement of people with severe mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to smaller group residences |
| criminal commitment | legal procedure by which a person found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity must be confined in a psychiatric hospital |
| diminished capacity | evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes crminal charges against them requiring intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses requiring only reckless or criminal neglect |
| competence | ability of legal defendants to participate in their own defense and understand the charges and the roles of the trial participants |
| duty to warn | mental health professional's responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened |
| expert witness | person who because of special training and experience is allowed to offer opinion testimony in legal trials |
| clinical efficacy axis | one of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions on the evidence of their effectiveness |
| clinical utility axis | one of the proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions by whether they can be applied effectively and cost effectively in real clinical settings |
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