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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Hart, 2003Description: xiv, 217 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1841133434
  • 9781841133430
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.41044 21
Contents:
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 -- App. 1. Selected sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 -- App. 2. Methodology -- App. 3. Decision Outcomes.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 344.41044 PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A288610B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- App. 1. Selected sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 -- App. 2. Methodology -- App. 3. Decision Outcomes.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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