TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peay,Jill
TI  - Decisions and dilemmas: working with mental health law 
SN  - 1841133434
U1  - 344.41044 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Hart
KW  - Mental health laws
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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