PSYC 3290 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parens Patriae, Cengage Learning, American Law Institute
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Chapter 16 - mental health services: legal and ethical issues: in quebec, a psychiatrist can commit a patient with schizophrenia if they refuse to take their medications. Answer: b: the government justifies its right to commit someone to a mental health facility under two types of authority. What is the second type: legal power, the protection of the mentally ill, parens patriae (state as the parent, the will of the people. Answer: c: the government justifies its right to commit someone to a mental health facility under two types of authority: police power and parens patriae. Answer: b: gavin was taken into custody under the principle of parens patriae. What does this mean: the state is acting as a legal advisor, the state is acting as a social worker, the state is acting as a legal guardian, the state is acting as a surrogate parent.
