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Subject(s)

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30) [Browse]
• Mental health laws [Browse]
• Insanity (Law) [Browse]

Editor

• Kelly, Brendan (Lawyer) [Browse]
• Donnelly, Mary (Law teacher) [Browse]

Series

Routledge handbooks in law

Summary note

"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. This is a timely moment for this book to appear. 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. The Handbook is aimed at mental health scholars and practitioners as well as students of law, human rights, disability studies, and psychiatry, and campaigners and law- and policy-makers"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781032128375
• 1032128372
• 9781032128405 ((paperback))
• 1032128402

LCCN

2023022224

OCLC

1378098993

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