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| the legal process of placing a person in a mental institution, even against his or her will |
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| the legal process of confining a person found not guilty by reason of insanity in a mental institution |
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| False. People cannot be committed because they are eccentric. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that people must be judged mentally ill and present a clear and present danger to themselves or others to be committed to a psychiatric facility. |
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| People can be committed to psychiatric facilities because of odd or eccentric behavior. |
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| False. Actually, only a small minority of people with mental disorders commit violent crimes. |
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| Most people who are diagnosed with mental disorders commit violent crimes. |
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| False. The Alabama case of Wyatt v. Stickney established certain patient rights, including the right not to be required to perform work for the sake of maintaining the psychiatric hospital. |
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| Patients in mental hospitals may be required to perform general housekeeping duties in a facility. |
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| False. Therapists are actually obligated under some state laws to breach client confidentiality to warn people when threats of violence are made against them by their clients. |
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| Therapists may not breach patient confidentiality even when a patient makes a death threat against a specific person. |
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| the therapist's obligation to warn third parties of threats made against them by clients |
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| True. John Hinkley, who was seen by millions of TV viewers attempting to assassinate President Reagan, was found "not guilty by reason of insanity" by a court law. |
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| An attempt to assassinate the president of the United States was seen by millions of television viewers, but the would-be assassin was found not guilty by a court of law. |
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| a legal defense in which a defendant in a criminal case pleads not guilty on the basis of insanity |
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| False. The insanity defense is rarely used in felony cases, and the rate of acquittals based on the defense is even rarer. |
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| The insanity defense is used in a large number of trials, usually successfully. |
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| People who are found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity may be confined to a mental hospital for many years longer than they would have been sentenced to prison, had they been found guilty. |
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| competency to stand trial |
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| the ability of criminal defendants to understand the charges and proceedings brought against them and to participate in their own defense |
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| A defendant may be held competent to stand trial but still be judged not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity. |
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