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
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