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Psychological Phenomena > Mental Competency
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Mental Competency
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Mental Competency
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Mental Competency

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Mental Competency  

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Entry terms

  • Competence, Mental
  • Competency, Mental
  • Mental Competence

Note

  • 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)

Scope note

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

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  • 92

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016743

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