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New Zealand's Mental Health Act in practice / edited by John Dawson and Kris Gledhill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 399 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0864739044
  • 9780864739049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.93044 23
LOC classification:
  • KUQ518
Contents:
Part I. Introduction -- Part II. The Criteria for compulsion -- 1. The complex meaning of 'Mental Disorder' -- 2. Personality disorder and the Mental Health Act -- 3. Risk and compulsion -- 4. Seriously diminished capacity for self-care -- Part III. Review Procedures -- 5. The Mental Health Review Tribunal -- 6. Implicity Factors for discharge by the Mental Health Review Tribunal -- 7. District Inspectors Watchdogs of Patients' Rights -- 8. Reflections on the Statutory Roles of the Director of Mental Health -- 9. Regulating the detention of mentally inscapacitated adults not subject to the Mental Health Act -- Part IV. Treatment without consent -- 10. The role of the responsible clinician -- 11. Mental health nuring and the Mental Health Act -- 12. Sould involuntary patients with capacity have the right to refuse treatment? -- 13. Mandatory second opinions on compulsory treatment -- Part V. Cultural and human rights -- 14. Māori and the Mental Health Act -- 15. The recovery of compulsory assessment and treatment -- 16. A 'Rights' audit of the Mental Health Act -- 17. Social Deprevation and use of the Mental Health Act -- Part VI. Collateral Legislation -- 18. Further reform of unfitness to Stand Trial -- 19. Adults with incapacity: The protection of personal and Property Rights Act -- 20. The Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act -- 21. Reform of the Alcoholism and Drug addiction act.
Summary: "New Zealand's Mental Health Act in Practice constitutes a thorough, non-governmental review of the workings of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992. It provides a rounded portrait of the implementation of New Zealand's compulsory assessment and treatment regime, set within its wider legal context - with chapters written by clinicians, consumers, lawyers, officials, nurses and social scientists who work with the Act"--Publisher information.
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Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 344.93044 NEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A539975B

"Published with the assistance of the New Zealand Law Foundation.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- Part II. The Criteria for compulsion -- 1. The complex meaning of 'Mental Disorder' -- 2. Personality disorder and the Mental Health Act -- 3. Risk and compulsion -- 4. Seriously diminished capacity for self-care -- Part III. Review Procedures -- 5. The Mental Health Review Tribunal -- 6. Implicity Factors for discharge by the Mental Health Review Tribunal -- 7. District Inspectors Watchdogs of Patients' Rights -- 8. Reflections on the Statutory Roles of the Director of Mental Health -- 9. Regulating the detention of mentally inscapacitated adults not subject to the Mental Health Act -- Part IV. Treatment without consent -- 10. The role of the responsible clinician -- 11. Mental health nuring and the Mental Health Act -- 12. Sould involuntary patients with capacity have the right to refuse treatment? -- 13. Mandatory second opinions on compulsory treatment -- Part V. Cultural and human rights -- 14. Māori and the Mental Health Act -- 15. The recovery of compulsory assessment and treatment -- 16. A 'Rights' audit of the Mental Health Act -- 17. Social Deprevation and use of the Mental Health Act -- Part VI. Collateral Legislation -- 18. Further reform of unfitness to Stand Trial -- 19. Adults with incapacity: The protection of personal and Property Rights Act -- 20. The Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act -- 21. Reform of the Alcoholism and Drug addiction act.

"New Zealand's Mental Health Act in Practice constitutes a thorough, non-governmental review of the workings of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992. It provides a rounded portrait of the implementation of New Zealand's compulsory assessment and treatment regime, set within its wider legal context - with chapters written by clinicians, consumers, lawyers, officials, nurses and social scientists who work with the Act"--Publisher information.

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