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| Legal proceeding that determines a person is mentally disordered and may be hospitalized, even involuntarily. |
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| Term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the cause of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process. |
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| Tendency to violence that, contrary to popular opinion, is not more likely among mental patients. |
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| Systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or mental retardation from 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 residences. |
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| Legal procedure by which a person found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity must be confined in a psychiatric hospital. |
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| Evidence of an abnormal mental condition in people that causes criminal charges against them requiring only reckless or criminal neglect. |
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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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| Mental health professional's responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened. |
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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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| One of a proposed set of guidelines for evaluating clinical interventions on the evidence of their effectiveness. |
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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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