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The Dilemma of Competency for Trial and Mental Illness

New England Journal of Medicine, 1970
UNDER statutory provisions in all states a court may request an opinion from a state mental hospital about whether a person accused of a crime possesses the required mental capacity to be tried. The common-law standard for such capacity includes an understanding of the nature and object of the proceedings against him, an ability to comprehend his own ...
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Assessing mental competence of patients and relatives

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994
This paper presents a discussion on the assessment of mental competence of patients and relatives in the health care setting Their decision‐making ability is explored with particular reference to the giving of consent for nursing intervention and medical treatment It is suggested that, in addition to obvious psychological or neurological disorders ...
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Determining mental capacity and competence

2021
The right of a mentally competent adult to refuse medical or any other intervention is enshrined in the common law in the United Kingdom. The issue of how to determine mental capacity was further reviewed by the both the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission in their reports on mental incapacity, and by the Court of Appeal in “re MB” a case ...
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Clinical Determination of Mental Competence

Archives of Neurology, 1988
In an attempt to establish a method for determination of mental competence, a two-part investigation was undertaken. First, a model for mental competence was devised that would be applicable across a broad range of neurologic disorders; this model was based on a patient's ability to make complex decisions. Second, a retrospective analysis of competence
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The competence criterion for mental health programs

Community Mental Health Journal, 1967
Mental health programs are ordinarily assessed in terms of the extent of services rendered and the professional level of staff. These criteria do not permit an accurate judgment of the value of these services. It is proposed that measures of the effectiveness and cost of such programs are required.
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Mental health, social competence and the war on poverty.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1966
Mental health has emphasized reduction of intrapsychic conflict. Increasingly intervention strategies are shifting toward cognitive training for social competence. This trend is traced back to the New Deal and early psychoanalysts. Mental health must reexamine its own strategies if it is to retain leadership within the helping professions.
Q A, Rae-Grant, T, Gladwin, E M, Bower
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Evaluation of mental competency.

American family physician, 1989
The assessment of competency is a legal and judicial one, often resting heavily on a medical evaluation. According to one set of criteria, the primary elements of mental competency are based on an individual's awareness of the nature of the present situation, factual understanding of the issues at hand and ability to manipulate information rationally ...
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Brief form of the competency screening test for mental competence to stand trial

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1979
Investigated a brief 5-item version of the Competency Screening Test (a sentence completion test of mental competence to stand trial) for its relationship to the complete 22-item test, and for its power to predict the mental competency findings of a comprehensive Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation conducted by a forensic psychiatrist.
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PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF MENTAL COMPETENCY IN THE AGING*

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1953
H E, CLOW, E B, ALLEN
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Autonomy, Competence and Mental Disorders

1990
Informed consent has emerged, perhaps uniquely, in the field of health care, as a particular quality of consent by a patient to a particular treatment or course of treatment. Assuming legal competence, it requires that a decision, made without force or duress, is founded on appropriate understanding of the nature of the treatment, its probable outcomes
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