Author : Michael Ashley Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108838855
Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.
Author : Michael Dudley
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199213968
People with mental disorders often suffer the worst conditions of life.This book is the first comprehensive survey of the mental health/human rights relationship. It examines the relationships and histories of mental health and human rights, and their interconnections with law, culture, ethnicity, class, economics, biology, and stigma.
Author : Afzal Javed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319705547
This book is the newest edition on the series ‘advances in psychiatry’. The previous 3 volumes can be found online at http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=660 . They were highly successful in covering a broad area of psychiatry from different perspectives and angles and by reflecting both specialized but also international and global approaches. This series have guaranteed quality therefore can be used by different scientific groups for teaching and learning and also as a means for fast dissemination of advanced research and transformation of research findings into the everyday clinical practice.
Author : Vikram Patel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199920184
This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.
Author : Bernadette Mcsherry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135016577
There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation to individuals such as those with severe mental illnesses, those with intellectual and cognitive disabilities and those with substance use problems. With a focus on choice and capacity the book explores the impact of and challenges posed by the provision of care in an involuntary environment. The contributors to the book look at mental health, capacity and vulnerable adult’s care as well as the law related to those areas. The book is split into four parts which cover: human rights and coercive care; legal capacity and coercive care; the legal coordination of coercive care and coercive care and individuals with cognitive impairments. The book covers new ground by exploring issues arising from the coercion of persons with various disabilities and vulnerabilities, helping to illustrate how the capacity to provide consent to treatment and care is impaired by reason of their condition.
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1989-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780815602422
1 copy located in CIRCULATION.
Author : Natalie Drew
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 924156394X
"This report presents compelling evidence that people with mental health conditions meet major criteria for vulnerability. The report also describes how vulnerability can lead to poor mental health, and how mental health conditions are widespread yet largely unaddressed among groups identified as vulnerable. It argues that mental health should be included in sectoral and broader development strategies and plans, and that development stakeholders have important roles to play in ensuring that people with mental health conditions are recognized as a vulnerable group and are not excluded from development opportunities. The recommended actions in this report provide a starting point to achieve these aims."--Page xxiv.
Author : Bernadette McSherry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847315968
Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses. 'Rights-based legalism' is a term used to describe mental health laws that refer to the rights of individuals with mental illnesses somewhere in their provisions. The advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities makes it timely to rethink the way in which the rights of individuals to autonomy and liberty are balanced against state interests in protecting individuals from harm to self or others. This collection addresses some of the current issues and problems arising from rights-based mental health laws. The chapters have been grouped in five parts as follows: - Historical Foundations - The International Human Rights Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Gaps Between Law and Practice - Review Processes and the Role of Tribunals - Access to Mental Health Services Many of the chapters in this collection emphasise the importance of moving away from the limitations of a negative rights approach to mental health laws towards more positive rights of social participation. While the law may not always be the best way through which to alleviate social and personal predicaments, legislation is paramount for the functioning of the mental health system. The aim of this collection is to encourage the enactment of legal provisions governing treatment, detention and care that are workable and conform to international human rights documents.
Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1984-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521255981
This book is about the competing images of man offered us by the disciplines of law and psychiatry. Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends it from the challenges presented by three psychiatric ideas: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that a person is a community of selves more than a unified single self. Using the tools of modern philosophy, he attempts to show that the moral metaphysical foundations of our law are not eroded by these challenges of psychiatry. The book thus seeks, through philosophy, to go beneath the centuries-old debates between lawyers and psychiatrists, and to reveal their hidden agreement about the nature of man. Some attention is paid to practical legal and psychiatric issues of contemporary concern, such as the proper definition of mental illness for psychiatric purposes, and the proper definition of legal insanity for legal purposes. This book was first announced, for publication in hard covers, in the Press's January to July seasonal list.
Author : Karrie A. Shogren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108475647
Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.
