Abnormal Psychology, Canadian Ed. (Nevid) Chapter 14: Abnormal Psychology and Society



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TRUE/FALSE

35)



Civil commitment is identical to voluntary hospitalization.

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FALSE

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36)



People used to be committed without any clear evidence that they posed a danger to themselves or others.

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TRUE

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37)



People can be psychiatrically committed because they are eccentric.

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FALSE

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38)



Szasz argues that the label of mental illness is a societal invention which transforms social deviance into medical illness.

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TRUE

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39)



Clinicians tend to overpredict the dangerousness of their clients.

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TRUE

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40)



Psychologists and other mental-health professionals are quite accurate when it comes to predicting dangerousness of the people they treat.

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FALSE

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41)



A layperson supplied with information concerning an individual's past may be more accurate in predicting the individual's potential for future violence than the clinician who bases a prediction solely on information obtained from a clinical interview.

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TRUE

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42)



Classification within a diagnostic category that is associated with aggressive or dangerous behaviour, such as antisocial personality, is sufficient for predicting specific violent acts in individuals.

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FALSE

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43)



The potential for violence is heightened in people with serious psychiatric disorders when they drink or use crack or other drugs.

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TRUE

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44)



Predictions of dangerousness based on hospital behaviour tend to generalize to community settings.

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FALSE

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45)



Information provided to a therapist by a client is protected by rules of absolute confidentiality.

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FALSE

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46)



Therapists are not obligated by state laws to breach confidentiality, even to warn intended victims of threats of violence made against them by their clients.

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FALSE

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47)



The courts have ruled that the rights of an intended victim are outweighed by a client's rights to confidentiality.

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TRUE

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48)



Therapists may not disclose confidential information about clients to third parties, even when their clients threaten violence to the third parties.

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FALSE

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49)



The Tarasoff ruling carries force of law nationally.

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FALSE

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50)



Court rulings have established that hospitalized mental patients do not have the right to refuse medication.

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FALSE

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51)



In most cases where patients refuse treatment, the courts have sided with the patients during the review process.

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FALSE

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52)



The insanity defense is used in a large number of cases, and usually successfully.

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FALSE

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53)



In states that have adopted it, the "guilty but mentally ill" verdict has substantially reduced the number of "not guilty by reason of insanity" verdicts.

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FALSE

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54)



The insanity defense has a long legal history.

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TRUE

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55)



Repeated criminal behaviour is not sufficient, by itself, to establish a mental disease or defect that might relieve an individual of criminal responsibility.

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TRUE

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56)



People who are found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity may remain confined to a mental hospital indefinitely---for many years longer than they would have been sentenced to prison, if they had been found guilty.

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TRUE

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57)



Customary sentences that the law provides for particular crimes have no bearing on criminal commitment.

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TRUE

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58)



The insanity defense places special burdens on juries.

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TRUE

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59)



Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz denies the existence of mental illness.

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TRUE

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60)



There is a basic rule of law that says that those who stand accused of crimes must be able to understand the charges and proceedings brought against them and be able to participate in their own defense.

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TRUE

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61)



It is possible for a defendant to be held competent to stand trial but still be judged not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.

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TRUE

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62)



More people are confined to mental institutions for being incompetent to stand trial than for being found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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TRUE

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ESSAY

63)



Compare and contrast voluntary, civil, and legal commitment.

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64)



Discuss the development of safeguards to prevent abuses of psychiatric commitment.

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65)



Discuss the controversy concerning psychiatric commitment.

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66)



Discuss research concerning the problems of psychologists and other professionals who are given the task of attempting to predict dangerousness.

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67)



Explain why professionals tend to overrepresent dangerousness.

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68)



Explain the effects of the Tarasoff case on helping professionals' duty to warn third parties of threats posed by clients.

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69)



Discuss some of the conflicts involved in requiring helping professionals to warn third parties of threats.

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70)



Discuss legal developments concerning the right to treatment.

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71)



Discuss legal developments concerning the right to refuse treatment.

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72)



Discuss the history of the legal bases of the insanity plea.

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73)



Discuss the "guilty but mentally ill" verdict.

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74)



Discuss problems in determining the term of commitment for perpetrators who are found insane.

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75)



Discuss the problems the insanity plea creates for jurors.

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76)



Discuss the issue of whether or not the insanity plea is degrading to the defendant.

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77)



Discuss the principle of competency to stand trial.

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