Abnormal Psychology 16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Deinstitutionalization | Movement to close down mental hospitals and to treat people with severe mental disorders in the community. |
| Forensic psychology (forensic psychiatry) | Deals with legal problems related to mental disorders and the legal protection of mental patients. |
| Guilty but mentally ill | GBMI Provides an alternate to pleading not guilty by reason of insanity and allows treatment in a mental facility. |
| Health Maintenance organization | HMO A health plan that gives services to employers and people for a fixed prepaid fee. |
| indicated interventions | Early detection and treatment of maladaptive behavior in a person's family or community |
| insanity defense | The plea used as a legal defense in criminal trials |
| managed health care | ... |
| milieu therapy | ... |
| NGRI plea | ... |
| residential treatment | ... |
| selective interventions | ... |
| Tarasoff decision | ... |
| social learning programs | ... |
| Universal interventions | ... |
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