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Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law is the Definitive Reference for All Those Involved With This Rapidly Changing Area

Posted on: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 09:01 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34988) has announced the addition of Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law to their offering.

In the complex and sometimes volatile area of mental health law, this volume provides ready access to key articles from around the world. Each article has been chosen for its definitive focus on critical issues.

The work is divided into three parts. Part I: Principles looks thematically at questions concerning the role of capacity, coercion and compulsion in mental health law, together with an examination of the conflicting potential of the law to be both discriminatory and therapeutic. Part II: Process examines selected seminal empirical studies of process relating to diagnosis, compulsory admission, legal safeguards and treatment in the community. Part III: Trends adopts a broadly chronological lens critically to assess the past, examine persistent current dilemmas and speculate about an uncertain future.

Key Features:

-- Provides an easy reference to seminal articles in mental health law

-- Brings together a cross-selection of articles on fundamental issues from around the world

-- Concluding section provides a critical analysis of the past and an assessment for the future;

-- Includes a substantial context setting introduction by the editor.

Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law is a definitive reference for all those involved with this rapidly changing area.

Key articles include:

-- The limitations of the legal approach to mental health

-- The ideology of entitlement: the application of contemporary legal approaches to psychiatry

-- Unreasonable rights: mental illness and the limits of the law

-- Dying with their rights on

-- In defence of compulsory psychiatric intervention

-- The third way in mental health policy: negative rights, positive rights, and the convention

-- Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and for the improvement of mental health care

-- The rights of psychiatric patients in the light of the principles announced by the United Nations: A recognition of the right to consent to treatment?

-- Mental health law: institutionalised discrimination

-- Advance directives for psychiatric care: a theoretical and practical overview for legal professionals

-- Putting mental health into mental health law

-- The Italian experience and its implications

-- Reform of the Mental Health Act 1983: the relevance of capacity to make decisions. - On being sane in insane places

-- Practices and attitudes among Swedish psychiatrists regarding the ethics of compulsory treatment

-- The "Pass-Through" model of psychiatric emergency room assessment

-- Coercion and commitment: understanding involuntary mental hospital admission

-- Perceived coercion in mental hospital admission: pressures and process

-- Flights of the mind

-- Consent and treatment

-- Tests of competency to consent to treatment

-- The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study III. abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments

-- Mental health review tribunals: just or efficacious safeguards?

-- Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes, dangerousness, and social distance

-- Opening Pandoras box: the practical and legal dangers of involuntary outpatient commitment.

-- Ambivalence about community treatment orders

-- Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care

-- Out to pasture: a case for the retirement of Canadian mental health legislation

-- Autonomy, guardianship and mental disorder

-- Mental disability law in central and eastern Europe: paper, practice, promise

-- Is mental illness inevitably stigmatising?

-- Mental health law: objectives and principles

-- The test of compulsion in mental health law: capacity, therapeutic benefit and dangerousness as possible criteria

-- The boundaries of madness

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34988

Source: Business Wire

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