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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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Mental competency and planning for disability.

Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine, 1992
When the Alzheimer's disease patient is no longer mentally competent to handle his or her legal and personal affairs, a guardianship is the most common solution.
Reckman, M. S., Seiler, Lauren H.
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Structural competency in mental health nursing: Understanding and applying key concepts

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2021
Roberta Waite, Dena Hassouneh
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Mental health - cultural competence.

Australian family physician, 2010
Depression, and its associated anxiety, is very common in the community and frequently managed in general practice. Yet it remains a problematic concept. Differing views of depression influence both clinical practice and research.This article discusses the way each patient's culture interacts with other important contexts of clinical practice to shape ...
John, Furler, Renata, Kokanovic
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[Mental disorder and competence to testify].

Der Nervenarzt, 2008
The article describes the approach used in the psychiatric assessment of a person's competence to testify and discusses different disorders. Psychiatrists are often asked to comment on the competence to give evidence if witnesses' behaviour suggests psychopathology or they are undergoing psychiatric treatment or psychotherapy.
S, Lau, C, Böhm, R, Volbert
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