Mental health law

date one of the most misunderstood and well-known cases among counselors. More than 40 years ago in 1976, a lawsuit was filed by the parents of Tatiana Tarasoff (Tarasoff vs Regents of the University of California) where the court decided that mental health professionals have a “duty to warn” or “duty to protect” third parties from harm (Damon). The court came to this conclusion after the murder of Tatiana Tarasoff on October 27, 1969. On this day Prosenjit Poddar went to Tatiana Tarasoff’s…

competency. It is important to keep in mind that the presence of a mental illness is not “just cause” to question the defendant’s competency to stand trial. In order for there to be bona fide doubt, at least one mental health professional would need to evaluate Miller (Costanzo & Krauss, 2015, p. 161). Costanzo and Krauss (2015) mention the competency to stand trial is determined by what a mental health professional deems is a defendant’s mental state at the time the trial. Two aspects of…

Guns and Mental Health The mentally ill teenager sits in his room for hours in a row while thoughts saturate his mind like a tidal wave beating at the shore of a deserted island. He has no medicine, but he reaches for the gun his dad gave him for his seventeenth birthday. He hides the gun in his backpack and goes to school. The only recognition he receives is in tomorrow 's newspaper as a "cold-blooded killer." In light of recent school shootings executed by mentally ill people, gun control…

Mental Illness and How it Should be Treated “These ‘harmless’ antidepressants have recently been linked to violent behavior, loss of impulse control, and suicidal thoughts” (Eakman). One thing that is real important is the over-prescribing of patients. That also leads into doctors not caring what they do to their patients, just observe them, diagnose them, and give them unneeded prescriptions for no reason inset for the money the doctors are making. People may think mental illness is somebody…

in four Americans suffer from mental illness, a number that adds up to over 45 million people (Barbara Wexler). This is not a number to be ignored and one that certainly isn’t. Over half of those aged eighteen and older received the treatment they needed between 2005 and 2006. This percentage is expected to rise and continue to rise as further developments are made to support the mentally ill; as of now, all that can be done for those suffering from a form of a mental disorder is being done.…

Mental Illness and Gun Violence: Debunking the Myth of Mental Illness’s Relation to Violence The myth that most mentally ill people are violent has been endlessly perpetuated by popular media so much so that the tendency to automatically associate mental illness with violence has become indoctrinated into popular belief. Today, with the widespread debate about gun violence and the search for something to blame, some sources, like the National Rifle Association (NRA), have turned to point the…

As it pertains to human behavior, it is noted that the government is obligated to educate people through health communication efforts, taxes, etc., use laws to bring about safer products, and alters environments2 for healthy lifestyles and outcomes. In the case 11a herein, most of these factors are embedded within. Since this paper will focus on moral rules and ideals, it would be…

in the mid-1800s to mid-1900s but outside they were not treated any better. In this research paper I am going to look into the treatment of the mentally ill in the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Predicated on accumulated information, it is known that mental institutions in this duration were cruel and they brought immense damage…

because of mental illness and/or criminal activity. There are two methods of risk assessments they are actuarial and clinical judgment (Brown & Singh, 2014). Actuarial risk assessment refers to a method of assessment that is based on statistics that estimates the risk level of a particular event to occur for example, how likely is this offender to commit a violent crime. There are requirements of actuarial instruments they include there being scientific integrity and practical utility (Baumann,…

our minds? Mental illnesses are often left undiagnosed or even shunned from society in certain cultures. Mental illnesses are also incredibly overlooked and undermined, as people cannot physically see the illness. However, it is still there and very much harming the people dealing with it. In the article, the editorial reports that the US government will not fund the treatments for inmates with mental disorders in federal prisons. The cost of accommodating for an inmate with a mental disorder…