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162 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics the broader justice implications for the field (i.e., civil forensics) in relat ...

Defining Mental Illness 163 forensic experts are responding to issues of civil justice. The six controversies pre sented in this ...

7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics Gina Hampton is a 27-year-old musician in a large metropolitan area. Gina has a his ...

Defining Mental Illness 165 conditions such as mental retardation, substance abuse, and epilepsy (Levy & Rubenstein, 1996; M ...

166 7 Connecticut, for example, between 1970 and 1972, 40% of insanity acquittals were classified as "personality disorders" (AP ...

167 Thus, two individuals with identical mental conditions may be found "mentally ill" and "not mentally ill" depending on the d ...

168 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT Introduction The concept of personal liberty is, perh ...

The Right to Refuse Treatment 169 Literature Review The right to refuse treatment is considered the "most controversial issue in ...

170 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics Competency A competent consent to treatment requires that the individual makes ...

The Right to Refuse Treatment 171 mentally ill and its consequent effect on the individual's personal liberty ultimately remain ...

172 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics there is no standard test for competency. While competency to accept or refuse ...

Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine 173 Literature Review The legal basis for the LRA doctrine is rooted in First Amendment r ...

174 / Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics assumptions are employed when considering "restrictive" in individual cases. Fi ...

Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine 175 Though initially a recommendation by legal scholars as an alternative to in- voluntar ...

176 7 Court and the Legal System—-Civil Forensics often left to state mental hospitals. Thus, mental health professionals are th ...

Duty to Inform vs Client Confidentiality 177 help resolve some of the controversy surrounding the LRA doctrine and its impli- ca ...

178 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics been diagnosed as HIV positive. He maintained that he had been tested 'just to ...

Duty to Inform vs Client Confidentiality 179 California standards for involuntary civil commitment and, thus, was not hospi tali ...

180 7 Court and the Legal System—Civil Forensics have even extended 'Tarasojj to include violence against property, and have ext ...

Victim Compensation Programs 181 identifiable third parties are present; the exact nature of the sexual behavior; whether there ...