Chapter 14

• 1) Person has a mental illness and needs treatment
• 2) Person is dangerous to self or others
• 3) Grave disability-inability to care for self

• - There are restrictions on involuntary commitment
• - A non-dangerous person can't be committed.
• -Need for treatment alone is not enough.
• -Having a grave disability is not enough,

• -Criminalization of mentally ill
• - Increase in homelessness
• - Deinstitutionalization
• -Transinstitutitonalization

They assist in competency determinations, assist in making reliable DSM diagnoses, assess malingering.

• 1) The right to be inforemed about the purpose of the research study
• 2) The right to privacy
• 3) The right to be treated with respect and dignity
• 4) The right to be protected from physical and mental harm
• 5) The right to choose to participate or refuse without prejudice or reprisals
• 6) The right to anonymity in reporting of results
• 7) The right to the safeguarding of their records