Define forensic mental health

What will be an ideal response?


Forensic mental health is an emerging discipline that brings together all professionals who work in the mental health field as it intersects with the law.

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___________ and ______________ are specific managerial guidelines that leave little or no latitude for individual discretion; they require action (or, in some cases, inaction)

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Those who are mentally ill are more likely to be homeless. 2. Female inmates experience more mental health problems than male inmates. 3. Jail inmates with mental illness are twice as likely to be homeless than inmates without mental illness. 4. One half of jail inmates reported a medical problem more serious than a cold or the flu.

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Measures of central tendency can actually be considerably misleading at times because ______

A. it is possible for two very different distributions to have similar means B. it is possible for two very different distributions to have similar standard deviations C. the variation ratio is not equal to the sum of the squared deviations of the distribution under analysis D. all of these

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The reason “volunteered statements” made by an arrestee are not subject to Miranda is because they:

a. are unreliable hearsay statements. b. do not result from police interrogation. c. do not result from the pressures of custody. d. do not result from official coercion, such as threats or promises.

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