Mental health law Books

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  • Mental Health, Incapacity and the Law in Scotland

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mental Health, Incapacity and the Law in Scotland

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis highly regarded book is a comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland. Every aspect of mental health law is explained, including tribunal procedure, procedures for adults with incapacity, community care, patients' rights and legal remedies for when things go wrong. Mental health and incapacity law affect not just those subject to compulsory orders, but everyone with a mental health problem, dementia or a learning disability. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law, Scots Law Student and Scottish General Practice online service.Trade ReviewWhen I reviewed the 1st edition of Hilary Patrick’s “Mental Health, Incapacity and the Law in Scotland” I predicted that, within much of its extended area of coverage, “This book will be the authoritative starting-point for lawyers and non-lawyers alike for some years to come”. I was right. This 2nd edition, a decade later, is to be welcomed for several principal reasons...A full and authoritative exposition of mental health law...multi-dimensional coverage of an impressively wide range of topics. -- Adrian D Ward * The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland *Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Chapter 1 – The law in context Chapter 2 – Statutory framework Chapter 3 – Key organisations Chapter 4 – Supporting the service user PART 2: MEDICAL TREATMENT AND CARE Chapter 5 – Patients’ rights Chapter 6 – Care in hospital Chapter 7 – Consent to treatment Chapter 8 – Patients unable to consent Chapter 9 – Restraint, force and detention Chapter 10 – Preparing for future incapacity PART 3: THE USE OF COMPULSION Chapter 11 – Compulsory measures Chapter 12 – Short-term detention Chapter 13 – Emergency detention Chapter 14 – Compulsory treatment orders Chapter 15 – Compulsory treatment orders: reviews, appeals and suspension Chapter 16 – Medical treatment Chapter 17 – Rights of patients subject to orders Chapter 18 – Restrictions on detained patients Chapter 19 – Hospital transfers Chapter 20 – Breach of orders, unauthorised absences and offences Chapter 21 – Transitional arrangements PART 4: THE TRIBUNAL Chapter 22 – Representation at the tribunal Chapter 23 – Tribunal procedure PART 5: ADULTS WITH INCAPACITY Chapter 24 – Adults with Incapacity Act Chapter 25 – Authorising welfare decisions Chapter 26 – Financial management PART 6: CARE IN THE COMMUNITY Chapter 27 – Community care Chapter 28 – Duty to provide services Chapter 29 – Paying for care PART 7: PEOPLE AT RISK Chapter 30 – People at risk PART 8: THE IMPACT OF MENTAL DISORDER Chapter 31 – Personal life Chapter 32 – Housing Chapter 33 – Education and employment Chapter 34 – Consumer rights Chapter 35 – Civil rights and public life PART 9: DISCRIMINATION Chapter 36 – Protection against discrimination PART 10: PEOPLE WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS Chapter 37 – Respect for diversity Chapter 38 – Issues for people with dementia Chapter 39 – People with learning disabilities Chapter 40 – Refugees and asylum seekers Chapter 41 – Children and young people PART 11: CARERS Chapter 42 – Carers PART 12: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND MENTAL DISORDER Chapter 43 – Criminal law and mental health Chapter 44 – Special measures for suspects and witnesses Chapter 45 – The criminal court process: from arrest to sentence Chapter 46 – The criminal court process: sentencing Chapter 47 – Care in prison and hospital transfers Chapter 48 – Impact of criminal justice orders and patients’ rights PART 13: CARE STANDARDS Chapter 49 – Health and care standards PART 14: WHEN THINGS GO WRONG Chapter 50 – Complaints Chapter 51 – Legal remedies Chapter 52 – Official enquiries APPENDICES Appendix 1 – European Convention on Human Rights Appendix 2 – UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol

    1 in stock

    £126.96

  • Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisMental 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.Trade Review...a thought provoking book for those with an interest in this field and I would recommend it. Sean McParland Frontline No. 84, Summer 2012Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws Bernadette McSherry and Penelope Weller PART 2 HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Institutionalising the Community: The Codification of Clinical Authority and the Limits of Rights-Based Approaches Philip Fennell 3 Lost in Translation: Human Rights and Mental Health Law Penelope Weller 4 The Fusion Proposal: A Next Step? Neil Rees PART 3 THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 5 The Expressive, Educational and Proactive Roles of Human Rights: An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Oliver Lewis 6 Involuntary Treatment Decisions: Using Negotiated Silence to Facilitate Change? Annegret Kampf 7 Abolishing Mental Health Laws to Comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Tina Minkowitz PART 4 GAPS BETWEEN LAWAND PRACTICE 8 Rights-Based Legalism: Some Thoughts from the Research Genevra Richardson 9 Extra-Legislative Factors in Involuntary Status Decision-Making Ian Freckelton 10 Civil Admission Following a Finding of Unfitness to Plead Jill Peay PART 5 REVIEW PROCESSES AND THE ROLE OF TRIBUNALS 11 Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The 'Rights' and the Wrongs of Competing Models? Terry Carney 12 Reviews of Treatment Decisions: Legalism, Process and the Protection of Rights Mary Donnelly 13 Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience Joaquin Zuckerberg 14 Compulsory Outpatient Treatment and the Calculus of Human Rights John Dawson PART 6 ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 15 Rights-Based Legalism and the Limits of Mental Health Law: The United States of America's Experience John Petrila 16 The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law Bernadette McSherry 17 Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the 'First World'Peter Bartlett

    15 in stock

    £52.24

  • Bayou Publishing Texas Law for the Social Worker: A 2016

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    £42.46

  • Essential Mental Health Law

    Hammersmith Press Limited Essential Mental Health Law

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe new Mental Act, amending the 1983 Act, was passed in 2007 and came into operation only this year. The new Mental Capacity Act was passed in 2005 and came into operation in 2007. Together they represent major changes in how mental health professionals should care for their patients, reflecting the shift from institutional to community care that has taken place since 1983. Crucially the new Mental Health Act redefines mental disorder and removes the 'treatability' test. These and other changes have caused great controversy, but now the new legislation is in place there is a need to understand what it means for the individual practitioner when making decisions about the care of individual patients. "Essential Mental Health Law" is the practical guide that will provide this understanding. Neutral on the wrongs and rights of the new legislation, it sets the controversy on one side to help psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses and social workers with the day to day application of the law in clinical practice. Non-specialist lawyers will also find it invaluable.Table of ContentsIntroduction/Overview; 1. Mental disorder, including Personality disorder; 2. Compulsory admission to hospital and renewal; 3. Consent to treatment; 4. Professional roles; 5. Advocacy and the nearest relative; 6. Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Managers; 7. Supervised Community Treatment and Guardianship; 8. After-care; 9. Children and young people; 10. Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence; 11. Police powers; 12. Risk assessment and management; 13. The Mental Capacity Act 2007; 14. The deprivation of liberty safeguards.

    15 in stock

    £28.49

  • Start

    Fledgling Press Start

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    Book SynopsisGraham Morgan has an MBE for services to mental health, and helped to write the Scottish Mental Health (2003) Care and Treatment Act. This is the Act under which he is now detained. Graham's story addresses key issues around mental illness, a topic which is very much in the public sphere at the moment. However, it addresses mental illness from a perspective that is not heard frequently: that of those whose illness is so severe that they are subject to the Mental Health Act. Graham's is a positive story rooted in the natural world that Graham values greatly, which shows that, even with considerable barriers, people can work and lead responsible and independent lives; albeit with support from friends and mental health professionals. Graham does not gloss over or glamorise mental illness, instead he tries to show, despite the devastating impact mental illness can have both on those with the illness and those that are close to them, that people can live full and positive lives. A final chapter, bringing the reader up to date some years after Graham has been detained again, shows him living a fulfilling and productive life with his new family, coping with the symptoms that he still struggles to accept are an illness, and preparing to address the United Nations later in the year in his new role working with the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

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    £11.39

  • Duncker & Humblot Die Erfassung Psychischer Erkrankungen in Der

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £56.18

  • WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation:

    World Health Organization WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation:

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £32.67

  • World Health Organization Who Expert Committee on Drug Dependence:

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £15.96

  • WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013:

    World Health Organization WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013:

    5 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    5 in stock

    £34.20

  • WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Tobacco health warnings in China: evidence of

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £17.00

  • Hong Kong University Press A Practical Guide to Mental Health Law in Hong

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    £18.90

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