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rights of patients court decisions
Question | Answer |
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Right to Treatment (Wyatt v. Stickney) | a mentally ill or mentally retarded person had a right to receive treatment |
Freedom from Confinement (Donaldson v. O’Connor) | - patients have a right to freedom from custodial confinement if they are not dangerous to themselves or others and if they can safely survive outside custody |
Right to Refuse Treatment | -patients can refuse certain treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery |
Limitations on the Right to Refuse Treatment (Washington v. Harper) | -prison could override a disturbed prisoner’s refusal of psychotropic medications |
Duty to Warn (Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California) | -Despite privacy laws therapists must attempt to warn victim of potential harm |