Mental Competency - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study.

20 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate 1-year change in financial capacity in relation to conversion from amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. METHODS: Seventy-six cognitively healthy older controls, 25 patients with amnestic MCI who converted ... Read more...

Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: the mediating role of social competence.

30 Aug 2009 Prospective studies of intergenerational continuity in parenting quality remain scarce, with little attention given to the potential role of social competence as a mediator of continuity. This study examined social competence as a mediator in the ... Read more...

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study. 20 Sep 2009
• Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: the mediating role of social competence. 30 Aug 2009
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• Who will participate in acute stroke trials? 10 May 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009
• Combat veterans, mental health issues, and the death penalty: addressing the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. 29 Apr 2009
• Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008). 29 Apr 2009
• Capacity to make treatment decisions in Chinese older persons with very mild dementia and mild Alzheimer disease. 29 Apr 2009
• Minimum clinically important difference for the Nepean Dyspepsia Index, a validated quality of life scale for functional dyspepsia. 26 Apr 2009
• Activity in the superior temporal sulcus highlights learning competence in an interaction game. 6 Apr 2009
• Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
• A community based survey of cognitive functioning, highway-code performance and traffic accidents in a cohort of older drivers. 27 Feb 2009
• [First-form children's health status and mental development] 27 Feb 2009
• Speech and school performance in children with benign partial epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCECTS). 24 Feb 2009
• Perceived diabetes task competence mediates the relationship of both negative and positive affect with blood glucose in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. 30 Jan 2009
• Of Atkins and men: deviations from clinical definitions of mental retardation in death penalty cases. 30 Dec 2008
• Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants. 30 Dec 2008
• Giving until it hurts?: Altruistic donation of solid organs. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Mental Competency'

Definition: The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).

Descriptor UI: D016743

Alternative terms: Mental Competency; Mental Competence; Competence, Mental; Competency, Mental; Incompetency, Mental; Mental Incompetency; Incompetence, Mental; Mental Incompetence; Competence;

Related Mesh Headings: Informed Consent; Insanity Defense; Legal Guardians; Treatment Refusal; Comprehension;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards;

Tree Number: F01.590; F02.410; I01.880.604.583.530; N03.706.535.625;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: in mental retard or organic or psychiat mental disord; coord IM with concomitant disord /psychol (IM); competency to consent: coord IM with INFORMED CONSENT (IM)