Disability Service Act 1993 (NSW)- This Act contains principles that are statements of human rights of people with disabilities. ... Community Services Act 1993 (NSW)- Set up the Community Services Commissioner and the Community Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal which allow complaints about disability services to be made. ... Mental Health Act 1990 (NSW)- Caters for the protection of the mentally ill. Guardianship Act 1887 (NSW)- Protects those who cannot look after themselv...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The courts will not hold an insane person responsible for any criminal conduct if the act is a result of any mental disorder or defect (Gado 2). If the accused is guilty or not guilty, the court's agreement of insanity says the accused was unable to appreciate the nature or the wrongfulness of criminal act and its results. ... In a majority of criminal cases, especially murder trials, an insanity plea is merely a defense strategy aimed at delivering guilty defendants from the death penalty or serving time in prison. ...

• Word Count: 1260
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

For instance, research shows that anxiety and depression could lead to antisocial behavior and outrage, which can make some act very drastic or leave them emotionally unstable. ... This is the problem because mental disorders act as a gateway to further criminal activity. ... First Step to Success is ann early intervention program designed to identify children with antisocial behavior and introduce adaptive behavioral strategies to prevent antisocial behavior in school. ...

• Word Count: 2154
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For instance, research shows that anxiety and depression could lead to antisocial behavior and outrage, which can make some act very drastic or leave them emotionally unstable. ... This is the problem because mental disorders act as a gateway to further criminal activity. ... First Step to Success is ann early intervention program designed to identify children with antisocial behavior and introduce adaptive behavioral strategies to prevent antisocial behavior in school. ...

• Word Count: 2153
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the American judicial system, one very controversial defense strategy is the insanity defense. This tactic is used when an individual who commits a crime is thought to suffer with a mental/emotional disorder, therefore lacking the capacity to understand why they committed the criminal act. ... The theory behind the defense is that a person who is mentally incompetent lacks the understand that the criminal act they've performed is wrong, harmful and illegal. ... Unless the defense proved that at the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason cau...

• Word Count: 2402
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

As a result, the defendant did not know' the nature and quality of the act he was doing. 3. ... A community's lack of resources to deal with the problem is often associated with what the public views as a random act of unexplained violence. ...

• Word Count: 2419
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

Many students with RAD don't believe they can succeed in school, so they act out to achieve success by being noticed or acknowledged. ... Many students with RAD don't believe they can succeed in school, so they act out to achieve success by being noticed or acknowledged. ... I feel passionate about this strategy and disease because my little brothers and I suffered abandonment and neglect as a child. ...

• Word Count: 1516
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a majority of cases, especially murder trails, the insanity plea is simply a defense strategy intended to keep guilty defendants from capital punishment or serving well-deserved time in prison. ... However, it is greatly over rated in imperative trials involving the assassination of a public figure or the condemnation of a defendant for a particularly dreadful act. ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

By having this acceptance and the fact they are not untreatable, it could help create more efforts toward new treatments and strategies, which would be more effective and would save the lives of innocents. ... In contrast, Simon describes in graphic detail the atrocities by serial killers and acts of genocide but states "I cannot fully explain why 'bad men' act out antisocial impulses while 'good men' channel potentially destructive psychic forces into constructive action....

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Legislation helps to solve this problem (1998, Data Protection Act). ... AC 2.2 Review two pieces of current legislation and organizational practices and policies for partnership working in health and social care Review of Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 is an important legislation meant to help people who lack mental capacity. ... MCA is supported by the Code of Practice, a practical guidance explaining how the Act works and giving examples to professionals. ... The Act shows: • How to help someone to make their own decisions • How to de...

• Word Count: 2490
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they were committed. According to law, this is a sufficient basis for showing he lacked the requisite mental state required as an element of the charged crime. ...

• Word Count: 2632
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary defines stress as "the result produced when a structure, system or organism is acted upon by forces that disrupt equilibrium or produce strain-. ... The US Department of Labor, employment standards administration act was implemented in 1993 to address "1 - the inability to work or perform regular daily activities due to serious health conditions, 2 - the lack of employment policies to accommodate working parents, which could force individuals to choose between job security and parenting, 3 - there is inadequate job security for employees who have se...

• Word Count: 1781
• Approx Pages: 7

Types of Treatment Although professional help is probably the most effective and safest way to treat depression, there are natural self-care strategies that can help cope with depression. ... Endorphins act as a sedative, they are manufactured in your brain, spinal cord and other parts of the body and are release in response to the brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. ...

• Word Count: 2331
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The experience of major depression is not solely a personal event especially when discussing young children- families are affected, school life is effected and certainly young children do not understand why it is they are feeling the way they are. When the sufferer is a child, the family is ultimately involved in all aspects of the experience from onset diagnosis, to remission and recovery. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated 11 percent of children are taking antidepressants; from 1988-2008 the use of antidepressants in children has skyrocket 400 percen...

• Word Count: 2968
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Proper management of the prison environment is one of the main keys to preventing any suicidal act. ... He provides many strategies that can be used to change a person's suicidal thoughts in jail whether it be mental or physical, it is a sure step to fixing the inmates. ...

• Word Count: 2076
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate