SoPSS: Social Policy and Behavioral Health Administration

Explore how to match treatment approaches with client characteristics to avoid treatment stalemates.

Guest Charles Sevilla, Attorney-at-Law, discusses mental health and the criminal justice system; specifically the 1984 Insanity Defense Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. 17, the prison system's involvement, legal tests for criminal responsibility (M'Naughten rule 8 Eng. Rep. 718 (1843), and the difference between people who are insane, and those who are simply criminals.

The Editors of LIFE join with the Editors of TIME in presenting this episode in the The March of Time series.

Learn how the laws impact your practice, as you watch these lively dramatizations of a judge and her law clerk discuss actual key cases in the creation of mental health laws including Tarasoff and Jaffe V. Redmond.

Volume II of this series addresses ethics, and the particular concern of being investigated by one’s licensing board for an alleged violation.