The right to refuse mental health treatment / Bruce J. Winick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winick, Bruce J., author.

Series:

Law and public policy

The law and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health laws--United States.

Mental health laws.

Mental illness--Treatment.

United States.

Patients--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Patients.

Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

Mental illness--Treatment--United States.

Mental illness.

Mental Health.

Patients--legislation & jurisprudence.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health.

United States.

Patients--legislation & jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1997]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"The Right to Refuse Treatment" [analyzes] the legal issues raised by involuntary treatment. It provides a systematic analysis of the mental health treatment techniques and the constitutional issues implicated by involuntary treatment. The 1st part of the book constructs a continuum of the intrusiveness along which the various treatment techniques--psychotherapy, behavior therapy, psychotropic medication, electroconvulsive therapy, electronic stimulation of the brain, and psychosurgery--may be ranked. In Part II, the author discusses the constitutional and other legal limitations on governmentally imposed, involuntary mental health and correctional treatment including statutory, regulatory, and international and tort law limits. The governmental interests that might justify involuntary treatment are analyzed, and 2 . . . limitations on the means to achieve these interests are examined: the therapeutic appropriateness principle and the least restrictive alternative principle. In Part III, the author analyzes issues related to the evaluation and implementation of the right to refuse mental health treatment.

The issues discussed in this book are [related to] psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychophamacology, bioethics and the law. Moreover, they reflect the traditionally different perspectives of the principal professional disciplines involved--law, psychiatry, and psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 1997. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s1997 dcunns.

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