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civil commitment laws
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legal proceedings that determine a person is mentally disordered and may be hospitalized, even involuntarily
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mental illness
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term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the cuases of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process
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dangerousness
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tendency to violence that, contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among mental patients
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deinstitutionalization
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systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or mental retardation out of institutions like psychiatric hospitals
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transinstitutionalization
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movement of people with severe mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to smaller group residencies
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criminal commitment
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legal procedure by which a person who is found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity must be confined in a psychiatric hospital
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diminished capacity
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evidence of an abnormal mental condition in a person that causes criminal charges against him or her that require intent or knowledge to be reduced to lesser offenses requiring only reckless or criminal neglect
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competence
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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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duty to warn
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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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expert witness
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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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malingering
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deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain
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informed consent
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ethical requirement whereby research subjects agree to participate in a research study only after they receive full disclosure about the nature of the study and their own role in it
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clinical efficacy
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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 utility
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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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