Routledge handbook of mental health law / edited by Brendan D. Kelly and Mary Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Brendan (Brendan D.), editor.

Donnelly, Mary (Law teacher), editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in law

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30).

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol.

Mental health laws.

Insanity (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 741 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Biography/History:

Brendan D. Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Mary Donnelly is Professor of Law at University College Cork, Ireland.

Summary:

"Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date analysis of cutting-edge developments in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) sought to transform the landscape in which mental health law is developed and implemented. This Convention, along with other developments, has, to varying degrees, informed sweeping legislative reforms in many countries around the world. These and other developments are discussed here. Contributors come from a wide range of countries and a variety of academic backgrounds including ethics, law, philosophy, psychiatry, and psychology. Some contributions are also informed by lived experience, whether in person or as family members. The result is a rich, polyphonic, and sometimes discordant account of what mental health law is and what it might be"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

History and development of mental health law / Brendan D. Kelly

Independent mental health monitoring : evaluating the care quality commission in England's approach to regulation, rights, and risks / Judy Laing

The relationship between ethics and law in mental healthcare / Louise Campbell

The European Court's incremental approach to the protection of liberty, dignity, and autonomy / Anna Nilsson

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and mental health law : requirements and responses / Suzanne Doyle Guilloud

Responses to the World Health Organization's quality rights initiative / Richard Duffy

Children's mental health care : decision-making and human rights / Camilla Parker

People with learning disability : Scotland and beyond / Jill Stavert

Mental health laws and older adults / Penelope Weller

Abuse, neglect, and adult safeguarding in the context of mental health and disability / Laura Pritchard-Jones

The use of trans-related diagnoses in healthcare and legal gender recognition : from disease- to identity-based models / Pieter Cannoot and Sarah Schoentjes

Personality disorder in mental health and criminal law / Ailbhe O'Loughlin

Mental illness and criminal law : irreconcilable bedfellows? / Jill Peay

The principles of forensic psychology and criminal law -an American perspective / Eric Y. Drogin

Mental capacity in forensic psychiatry information classification : general / Stefano Ferracuti and Giovanna Parmigiani

Capturing mental health issues in international criminal law and justice : the input of the international criminal court / Caroline Fournet

Decision-making capacity in mental health law / Alex Ruck Keene and Katherine Reidy

Risk of harm and involuntary psychiatric treatment / Matthew Large, Sascha Callaghan, and Christopher James Ryan

Compulsory community treatment : is it the least restrictive alternative? / John Dawson

Socio-economic inclusion and mental health law / Terry Carney

The right to mental health / Brendan D. Kelly

Mental health, discrimination, and employment law / Mark Bell

Family in mental health law : responding to relationality / Mary Donnelly

Consenting for prevention : the ethics of ambivalent choice in psychiatric genomics / Camillia Kong

Change or improvement? : mental health law reform in Africa / Heléne Combrinck

Mental health law and practice in Ghana : an examination of Act 846 / Lily Kpobi, Charlotte Kwakye-Nuako, and Leveana Gyimah

Regulating mental health care in South Africa : assessing the right to legal capacity and the right to the highest attainable standard of health in South African law and policy / Elizabeth Kamundia and Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis

Untapped potential of China's mental health law reform / Bo Chen

Colonisation, history, and the evolution of mental health legislation in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh / Sangeeta Dey and Graham Mellsop

India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017-a promise for transformation and radical change / Arjun Kapoor and Manisha Shastri

An alternative to mental health law : the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 / Gavin Davidson

Argentina, Chile, Columbia, and Peru : mental health law and legal capacity / Pablo Marshall

Mental health policies in Spanish and Portuguese speaking South American countries / Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura

Inter-disciplinary collaboration in the mental health sector : the role of law / Bernadette McSherry

The mental health, and justice project : reflections on strong interdisciplinarity / Gareth Owen

'Digitising the Mental Health Act' : are we facing the app-ification and platformisation of coercion in mental health services? / Piers Gooding

Mental health law : a global future? / Jean V. McHale

The future of mental health law : abolition or reform? / Kay Wilson

The future of mental health law-the need for deeper examination and broader scope / Tania L. Gergel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781003226413

1003226418

9781000984910

1000984915

9781000984941

100098494X

OCLC:

1401907006

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