Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: McSherry, Bernadette; Weller, Penelope
• 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 a?Rightsa? 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 Americaa?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 a?First Worlda?" -- "Index".
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (464 pages)
• Subjects: 344.044; Capacity and disability; Capacity and disability; Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- legislation & jurisprudence; Mental Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847315960; 1847315968
• Related ISBNs: 9781849460835; 1849460833
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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