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Legal proceeding that determines a person is mentally disordered and may be hospitalized, even involuntarily
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Civil commitment law
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Term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the causes of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process.
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Mental illness
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Tendency to violence that,contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among mental patients
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Dangerousness
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Systematic removal of people with serve mental illness or mental retardation from institutions like psychiatric hospitals.
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Deinstitutionalization
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Movement of people with severe mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to smaller group residences.
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transinstitutinalization
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Legal procedure by which a person found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity must be confined in a psychiatric hospital.
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Criminal commitment
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Evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes criminal charges against them requiring intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses requiring only reckless or criminal neglect.
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Diminished capacity
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Ability of legal defendants to participate in their own defense and understand the charges and the roles of the trial participants.
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competence
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Mental health professional's responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened.
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Duty to warn
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Person who because of special training and experience is allowed to offer opinion testimony in legal trials.
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Expert witness
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One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions on the evidence of their effectiveness
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Clinical efficacy axis
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One of a 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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Clinical utility axis
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