Decisions and dilemmas : working with mental health law / Jill Peay

• Autore: Peay Jill
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.41044
• Soggetto topico: Mental health laws - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-214) and index
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Robert Draper: A Case for Admission? -- 2. Clive Wright: A Case for Discharge? -- 3. Hazel Robinson: A Case for Compulsory Treatment? -- 4. Decision-making Research: Context and Content -- 5. Legal and Policy Context -- 6. Conclusions
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Decisions and dilemmas
• ISBN: 1-4725-5943-6; 1-280-80841-1; 9786610808410; 1-84731-100-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451333203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II