Decisions and dilemmas : working with mental health law / Jill Peay.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Hart, 2003Description: xiv, 217 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1841133434
- 9781841133430
- 344.41044 21
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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