Index

• Author: Richard D. Schneider - Hy Bloom - Mark Heerema
• Pages: 281-295

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ACT. See Assertive Community

Treatment (ACT) teams

Alberta’s Provincial Diversion Framework

(2001), 80

Amnesia, 146

Arson

mental health disorders and, 161

motives for, 161

psychiatric assessments, 161

sentencing, 161

Assertive Community Treatment(ACT)

teams, 71, 177

Assessment orders. See Assessments

Assessment reports. See also

Assessments

abridged assessments, 126–27

custodial settings, in, 151–55

expedited assessments, 151–52

in-custody accused, of, 151–52,

271–72

inpatient assessments, 130, 132, 151

Mental Health Act (Ont.), under,

252–53

model report format, 131

oral reports, 130, 176

out-of-custody accused, of, 269–70

psychiatric facilities, at, 134, 151

psycholegal reports, 134–63

“stand down” assessments, 132,

176–77

testimony in mental health court,

134, 176

types of, 134, 156–63

Assessments

ability to benef‌it from rehabilitative

sentence, 163

abridged assessments, 126–27

at psychiatric facilities, 134, 151

bailworthiness, 138–40

conf‌identiality issues, 80, 91, 130

consent to, 129

counsel, right to, 91, 130, 169–70,

228

court orders, forms for, 257–58,

269–72

Criminal Code provisions, 80, 129,

142, 152

criminal responsibility, 80, 98–99,

116, 151–53

custodial settings, in, 151–52

dangerousness, 14–16, 24–25, 116

disposition hearings, for, 21, 98–99

diversion programs, eligibility for, 6,

80, 100–2, 116, 133–37

ethical and professional issues, 118,

129, 131

expedited assessments, 151–52

family, applications to Justiceof the

Peace by, 254–55

f‌itness to stand trial, 80, 84, 88–89,

97, 116, 141–48, 176

health-care information, consent to

release, 80, 91, 130

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