Decisions and dilemmas : working with mental health law /
Jill Peay.
- xiv, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert Draper: A Case for Admission? -- Clive Wright: A Case for Discharge? -- Hazel Robinson: A Case for Compulsory Treatment? -- Decision-making Research: Context and Content -- Legal and Policy Context -- Conclusions -- Selected sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 -- Methodology -- Decision Outcomes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3.
"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.