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Psych 439 Chapter 16 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- PSYCH 439
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- Texas A&M University
Psych 439 Chapter 16 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Psych 439 Chapter 16 Questions And Answers
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civil commitment laws ANS✔✔ detail when a person can be legally declared
to have a mental illness and be placed in a hospital for treatment
mental illness ANS✔✔ a legal concept, typically meaning severe emotional
or thought disturbances that negatively affect an individuals health and
safety
dangerousness ANS✔✔ a particularly controversial concept to describe
people with mental illness: according to popular opinion, people who are
mentally ill are more dangerous than those who are not
deinstitutionalization ANS✔✔ the movement of people with severe mental
illness out of institutions
transinstitutionalization ANS✔✔ the movement of people with severe mental
illness from large psychiatric hospitals to nursing homes or the other group
residences, including jails and prisons, many of which provide only marginal
services
criminal commitment ANS✔✔ the process by which people are held because
they have been accused of committing a crime and are detained in a mental
health facility until they can be assessed as fit or unfit to participate in legal
proceedings against them, or they have been found not guilty of a crime by
reason of insanity
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