Abnormal Psychology

Ethical and Legal Issues 719 Limits of Confi dentiality: HIPAA in Action Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Ac ...

720 CHAPTER 16 violent impulses that he couldn’t control when in subway stations or when around blond-haired women, such a state ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 721 Researchers are developing ways to ensure that patients who may be cognitively impaired by a psycho ...

722 CHAPTER 16 involves both action and intention: To be criminally responsible means that a de- fendant’s crime was the product ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 723 have a mental defect. And what about someone with antisocial personality disorder (or psychopathy)— ...

724 CHAPTER 16 The Insanity Defense: Current Issues The federal requirements for the insanity defense have been narrowed, but am ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 725 whether the person knew in the abstract that the act was wrong versus knew that the specifi c beh ...

726 CHAPTER 16 “And you also knew that if you did that, it would be the wrong thing to do?’’ “Yeah, defi nitely,’’ Mr. Goldstein ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 727 States’ Rights: Doing Away With the Insanity Defense Some states have abolished the insanity defens ...

728 CHAPTER 16 The same all-or-nothing standard is used to determine whether a defendant is competent to plead guilty as well as ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 729 Dangerousness: Legal Consequences Andrew Goldstein’s attack on Kendra Webdale wasn’t the fi rst tim ...

730 CHAPTER 16 or to others, or establishing an inability to care for oneself. Dangerousness can be broken down into four compon ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 731 To prevent such people from harming themselves or others, the law provides that they can be confi n ...

732 CHAPTER 16 Confi dentiality and the Dangerous Patient: Duty to Warn and Duty to Protect In the 1960s, University of Californ ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 733 long they can commit a defendant to a mental health facility to determine whether treatment may lea ...

734 CHAPTER 16 Do you think that Smith was dangerous? Did he make a threat regarding an identifi able—or foreseeable—victim? Cou ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 735 Inpatient Commitment The MacArthur Coercion Study (MacArthur Research Network on Mental Health and ...

736 CHAPTER 16 hospitals, waiting lists for supervised housing at state-fi nanced group homes, waiting lists for a state-fi nanc ...

Ethical and Legal Issues 737 court-mandated outpatient treatment for a mentally ill person who refuses treatment; a judge makes ...

738 CHAPTER 16 In 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws regarding sexual predators (Kansas v. Hendr ...