According to the O'Connor vs. Donaldson decision, which of the following conditions in state laws would NOT be Constitutional?
A) Legislating that a person must suffer a mental illness to be committed.
B) Legislating that a person can be committed if (A) is true, and she is also dangerous to others.
C) Legislating that a person can be committed if (A) is true, and she is also dangerous to herself.
D) Legislating that a person can be committed if she has no mental illness but neglects herself so much that her health is weakened.
E) Legislating that a person can be committed if (A) is true and if she is dangerous to herself, and specifying that "dangerous to herself" includes an overt threat to others.
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Q1: Kendra's Law allows involuntary hospitalization for:
A) homeless,
Q2: In the Alabama legal decision of Wyatt
Q3: Joyce Brown's ultimate medical problem was:
A) schizophrenia
B)
Q4: Thomas Szasz holds that, to be real,
Q5: The 1976 Tarasoff decision concerns:
A) involuntary commitment.
B)
Q7: The chapter on Joyce Brown suggests that,
Q8: The Rosenhan study is famous for showing:
A)
Q9: Deinstitutionalization failed to work because of:
A) NIMBY
B)
Q10: Mayor Koch supposedly wanted to commit Joyce
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