New Zealand's Mental Health Act in practice / 
edited by John Dawson and Kris Gledhill. 
 - 399 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Published with the assistance of the New Zealand Law Foundation.". 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  The Criteria for compulsion --  The complex meaning of 'Mental Disorder' --  Personality disorder and the Mental Health Act --  Risk and compulsion --  Seriously diminished capacity for self-care --  Review Procedures --  The Mental Health Review Tribunal --  Implicity Factors for discharge by the Mental Health Review Tribunal --  District Inspectors Watchdogs of Patients' Rights --  Reflections on the Statutory Roles of the Director of Mental Health --  Regulating the detention of mentally inscapacitated adults not subject to the Mental Health Act --  Treatment without consent --  The role of the responsible clinician --  Mental health nuring and the Mental Health Act --  Sould involuntary patients with capacity have the right to refuse treatment? --  Mandatory second opinions on compulsory treatment --  Cultural and human rights --  Māori and the Mental Health Act --  The recovery of compulsory assessment and treatment --  A 'Rights' audit of the Mental Health Act --  Social Deprevation and use of the Mental Health Act --  Collateral Legislation --  Further reform of unfitness to Stand Trial --  Adults with incapacity: The protection of personal and Property Rights Act --  The Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act --  Reform of the Alcoholism and Drug addiction act.  Part I.  Part II.  1.  2.  3.  4.  Part III.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  Part IV.  10.  11.  12.  13.  Part V.  14.  15.  16.  17.  Part VI.  18.  19.  20.  21. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0864739044 9780864739049 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>New Zealand. Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mental health laws--New Zealand.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KUQ518 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>344.93044