Mental health law : a practical guide
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Basant K Puri; et al
- ناشر : London : Hodder Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9780340885031
Description
1 History of mental health legislation 1 2 Definitions used in mental health legislation 11 3 Compulsory admission to hospital 18 4 Guardianship and supervised aftercare 28 5 Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence 40 6 Consent to treatment 63 7 Mental health, medication and the law 76 8 Professional liability and negligence 85 9 Mental Health Review Tribunals 103 10 The Mental Health Act Commission 110 11 The Code of Practice, including its legal standing 115 12 Removal and return of patients to and from England and Wales 123 13 Management of property and affairs of patients 129 14 Approved social workers 134 15 Assessment of risk of violence 144 16 Suicidal patients 163 17 Children’s mental health law (by Paul J. Laking) 170 18 Old age 187 19 People with learning disabilities (by Angela Hassiotis) 189 20 Race, culture and mental health 200 21 Mental capacity and international comparison of mental health legislation 204 22 The Human Rights Act 1998 215 Appendix I Some key recent mental health cases (2000 to August 2004) 221 Appendix II Summary of civil treatment codes 233 Appendix III The police, the courts and mental health 235 Appendix IV Flowchart of decisions involving consent to treatment 236 Appendix V Sample forms
