PRIMAL FEAR & NUTS – MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW – ESSAY RUBRIC

***Watch 2 movies: Primal Fear (featuring Richard Gere), and Nuts (featuring Barbara Streisand)***

? Think critically about issues related to relevant legal doctrines by addressing issues presented in the two movies
? Evaluate the effectiveness and efficacy of the “treatments” or intervention in each case
? Introduce characters (include significant quotes)
? State similarities and differences between characters and their situations
? List the major mental health laws we learned and apply them to the cases in the movies
? Diagnosis main characters with mental illness(es) based on present symptoms and backed by research sources
? Apply theories of causation (2+ but one must be psychoanalytic) to characters
? State what you think should be done based on mental illness(es) and research related to efficacy of outcome for the 2 cases
? Present 5 studies throughout the paper that were used to support the content and reference them
? APA formatting:
? Title page
? Abstract
? Running head
? References
? In-text citations
? Guidelines:
? You may use topic headings
? An estimate of the length is about 15 pages but there is no required length as long as it answers the questions asked
? The focus of this paper is on laws related to mental health