PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Disorder
11 Nov 2016
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What does it mean to be unfit to stand trial: if the person has a mental disorder, if they cant understand the nature of the proceedings, the consequences of the proceedings, and cannot communicate with counsel. Why does it matter if people are fit to stand trial: an issue of someone not being able to get a fair trial. How would you determine if someone is unfit: go to a review board, a psychiatrist will do interviews. Zapf, p. a. , roesch, r. , & viljoen, j. l. (2001). Assessing fitness to stand trial: the utility of the fitness interview test (revised edition). Examine the accuracy of the fitness interview test, revised edition (fit-r) as a screening instrument for assessing fitness to stand trial. 100 men remanded to forensic psychiatric institute (fpi) in bc between. Most were single (54. 5%), white (64%), and unemployed (67%) at time of admission. Mean age = 34. 4 years (sd = 11. 07)
