Decisions and dilemmas working with mental health law Jill Peay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peay, Jill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health laws--Great Britain.

Mental health laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed

Contents:

1. Robert Draper: A Case for Admission?

2. Clive Wright: A Case for Discharge?

3. Hazel Robinson: A Case for Compulsory Treatment?

4. Decision-making Research: Context and Content

5. Legal and Policy Context

6. Conclusions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-214) and index

ISBN:

9786610808410

9781472559432

1472559436

9781280808418

1280808411

9781847311009

1847311008

OCLC:

476004855