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Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847315960
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health LawsDDC classification:
  • 344.044
LOC classification:
  • K3608 -- .R48 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Table of International Instruments -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws -- Part 2 Historical Foundations -- 2 Institutionalising the Community: The Codification of Clinical Authority and the Limits of Rights-Based Approaches -- 3 Lost in Translation: Human Rights and Mental Health Law -- 4 The Fusion Proposal: A Next Step? -- Part 3 The International Human Rights Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 5 The Expressive, Educational and Proactive Roles of Human Rights: An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 6 Involuntary Treatment Decisions: Using Negotiated Silence to Facilitate Change? -- 7 Abolishing Mental Health Laws to Comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- Part 4 Gaps between Law and Practice -- 8 Rights-Based Legalism: Some Thoughts from the Research -- 9 Extra-Legislative Factors in Involuntary Status Decision-Making -- 10 Civil Admission Following a Finding of Unfitness to Plead -- Part 5 Review Processes and the Role of Tribunals -- 11 Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The 'Rights' and the Wrongs of Competing Models? -- 12 Reviews of Treatment Decisions: Legalism, Process and the Protection of Rights -- 13 Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience -- 14 Compulsory Outpatient Treatment and the Calculus of Human Rights -- Part 6 Access to Mental Health Services -- 15 Rights-Based Legalism and the Limits of Mental Health Law: The United States of America's Experience -- 16 The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law.
17 Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the 'First World' -- Index.
Summary: This collection addresses some of the current issues and problems arising from rights-based mental health laws.
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Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Table of International Instruments -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws -- Part 2 Historical Foundations -- 2 Institutionalising the Community: The Codification of Clinical Authority and the Limits of Rights-Based Approaches -- 3 Lost in Translation: Human Rights and Mental Health Law -- 4 The Fusion Proposal: A Next Step? -- Part 3 The International Human Rights Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 5 The Expressive, Educational and Proactive Roles of Human Rights: An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 6 Involuntary Treatment Decisions: Using Negotiated Silence to Facilitate Change? -- 7 Abolishing Mental Health Laws to Comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- Part 4 Gaps between Law and Practice -- 8 Rights-Based Legalism: Some Thoughts from the Research -- 9 Extra-Legislative Factors in Involuntary Status Decision-Making -- 10 Civil Admission Following a Finding of Unfitness to Plead -- Part 5 Review Processes and the Role of Tribunals -- 11 Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The 'Rights' and the Wrongs of Competing Models? -- 12 Reviews of Treatment Decisions: Legalism, Process and the Protection of Rights -- 13 Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience -- 14 Compulsory Outpatient Treatment and the Calculus of Human Rights -- Part 6 Access to Mental Health Services -- 15 Rights-Based Legalism and the Limits of Mental Health Law: The United States of America's Experience -- 16 The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law.

17 Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the 'First World' -- Index.

This collection addresses some of the current issues and problems arising from rights-based mental health laws.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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