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Autonomy, Competence and Mental Disorders
1990Informed 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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Determination of Mental Competency, a Neurological Perspective
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2013This article discusses the evaluation of the capacity of a person to make informed decisions about financial matters, independent living, and informed consent for medical treatment and research. Determination of capacity is a function for which most physicians have little training.
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Evaluation of mental competency.
American family physician, 1989The 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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Assessing mental competence of patients and relatives
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994This 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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Mental health recovery competencies for mental health workers: A Delphi study
Journal of Mental Health, 2010Mental health recovery is a concept that is now widely promoted. Lengthy sets of competency statements have been published to assist mental health workers become more recovery orientated in their work. However, there continues to be a lack of clarity around what constitutes recovery focused practice or which competencies are most helpful to assist ...
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The competence criterion for mental health programs
Community Mental Health Journal, 1967Mental 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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Culturally competent mental health care
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, 2020Rosalinda R. Jimenez, Wendy Thal
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Mental Health and Academic Competence:
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 1989Elaine King Miller, Elizabeth A Cabell
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Cancer screening, prevention, and treatment in people with mental illness
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2016Ana Stefancic +2 more
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