Exam 18: Legal and Ethical Issues

You are a therapist seeing a couple in marital therapy. The wife announces in the first session that she wants a divorce, but the husband wants to try to work things out. What ethical dilemma does this situation present?

Louis Riel was executed for his role in the 1885 North-West rebellion despite the following psychiatric evidence that he was either insane at the time or was unfit to stand trial:

People often spend more time detained when they are found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder than they would have if they had been found guilty and given a typical sentence for their crime.

The Tarasoff case led to the ruling that a therapist who learns that a client is threatening to harm someone:

Which of the following are among the dimensions on which provinces differ with respect to their criteria for involuntary admission?

What has prompted the mayor of Vancouver to suggest a movement towards re-institutionalization?

A child in a residential treatment centre is refusing to participate in treatment. The director of the center tells the child's therapist that unless the child's aggressive behaviour improves, the child will be discharged. What ethical dilemma is raised here?

The current defence of "not criminally responsible" was previously termed:

Which of the following conflicts has Simon Fraser University researcher Verdun-Jones written about extensively?

If there are competing goals for therapy between the client and therapist, the therapist's goals should prevail.

Which province differs from the rest of Canada in that even if the rest of the criteria for Involuntary Admission by Jurisdiction are satisfied, individuals are not committed if they are capable of making a treatment decision?

Informed consent must be obtained from research participants.

A review conducted by Canadian researchers on the insanity defence (aka NCRMD)found that:

Which of the following was not one of the recommendations made by Simmie (1998)and Boyle and Vincent (1998)in their Toronto Star series on mental illness?

The parents of Glen Race, a 26-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who was wanted for three murders, argued that their son's killing spree could have been prevented if:

The result of the Tarasoff case was that duty to warn was extended to include intended victims.

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following landmark cases lead to the accused being required to know what is wrong, but also being able to apply that knowledge at the time of the act?

Based on a Toronto Star investigative journalism (1998)report on mental health reform, the following was recommended:

Louis Riel believed that he had been selected by the spirits to bring forward the message of the Métis. Indeed, Riel displayed many symptoms of: