A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy

A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy
Author: Piers Gooding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107140749

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.

A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy

A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy
Author: Piers Gooding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017
Genre: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol
ISBN: 9781108524353

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.

Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law

Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law
Author: Brendan D. Kelly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2023-10-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000984915

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.

Supported Decision-Making

Supported Decision-Making
Author: Karrie A. Shogren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-11-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108475647

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights

Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
Author: Michael Ashley Stein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108838855

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law

The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law
Author: Kay Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000954781

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers. The book is divided into four substantive sections: reforming mental health and disability law; regulating coercion and restrictive practices; improving access to justice and the criminal law; and transforming mental health law. It also includes an introduction from the editors and an afterword from Emeritus Professor McSherry. The book is aimed at regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics who are interested in the urgent and contentious issues surrounding the reform and development of mental health, disability and criminal law. It will help them understand the key issues and problems and presents suggestions for reform. The book is interdisciplinary and international in its focus.

Back to the Asylum

Back to the Asylum
Author: John Q. LaFond
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1992-06-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198022204

Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "law and order" in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual. This compelling book recounts how and why mental health law is being reshaped to safeguard society rather than mentally ill citizens. The authors, both experts in the field, convincingly demonstrate how rapidly changing American values ignited two very different visions of justice for the mentally ill. They argue that during the "Liberal era"-- from 1960 to 1980-- Americans staunchly supported civil liberties for all, particularly for disadvantaged citizens like the mentally ill. Also, criminal law provided ample opportunities for mentally ill offenders to avoid criminal punishment for their crimes, and restrictive civil commitment laws made it difficult to hospitalize the mentally disabled against their will. During the "Neoconservative era"--from 1980 on-- however, the public demanded new laws as a result of the rise in crime and the increasing number of homeless in communities. These changes make it much more difficult for mentally ill offenders to escape criminal blame and far easier to put disturbed citizens into hospitals against their will. Back to the Asylum accurately describes how this abrupt shift in from protecting individual rights to protecting the community has had a major impact on the mentally ill. It examines these legal changes in their broader social context and offers a provocative analysis of these law reforms. Finally, this timely work forecasts the future of mental health law and policy as America enters the twenty-first century.

Inside Forensic Psychology

Inside Forensic Psychology
Author: Tiffany R. Masson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2016-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

The rich case material in this unique book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of a wide variety of forensic psychology topics through the perspective of the psychologist working with these individuals. In this absorbing and illustrative volume, experienced forensic psychologists explain the specialized field's intersection between psychology and the justice system. It documents psychologists' interviews with involved parties, the law research they conduct, and their testimony in court on issues that include competency to stand trial, Miranda evaluations, defendants' sanity, sentencing, the death penalty, and violence and risk assessments, as well as on cases regarding family matters such as child custody, child protection, and parental rights. Offering firsthand testimonials from some of the best-known and most practiced professionals in the nation, the contributors not only explain the work but also offer comprehensive case studies that will enable students as well as readers who are not specialists in psychology to fully understand core concepts and appreciate the complexities and subtleties of the field. Inside Forensic Psychology is intended for undergraduate students and graduate students studying forensic psychology or entering into a forensic psychology concentration/specialization. As an instructional text, the book serves professors as a single resource that houses varied forensic clinical case vignettes incorporating the clinical thinking of the psychologist. The rich case material will serve to excite critical thinking in students, assist instructors in expanding upon their lectures, and provide invigorating, intriguing material for lay readers.

Mental Health Law in China

Mental Health Law in China
Author: BO. CHEN
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781032079080

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. It will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and disability and human rights law.