Decisions and Dilemmas
eBook - PDF

Decisions and Dilemmas

Working with Mental Health Law

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Decisions and Dilemmas

Working with Mental Health Law

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2003
Print ISBN
9781841133430
eBook ISBN
9781847311009
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Criminal Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Title verso
  4. Foreword by Lady Justice Hale
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1. Robert Draper: A Case for Admission?
  10. 2. Clive Wright - A Case for Discharge?
  11. 3. Hazel Robinson - A Case for Compulsory Treatment?
  12. 4. Decision-making Research: Context and Content
  13. 5. Legal and Policy Context
  14. 6. Conclusions
  15. Appendix 1 - Selected Sections of the Mental Health Act 1983
  16. Appendix 2 - Methodology
  17. Appendix 3 - Decision Outcomes
  18. Case List
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index