| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Cambridge disability, law and policy
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Cambridge disability, law and policy series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Related Publications -- List of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- A The CRPD and Mental Health -- B Research Scope and Aims -- C Audience -- D Conclusion -- Part I what do human rights mean for mental health law? -- 1 Mental Health Law: Purpose and Procedures -- A Introduction -- B The Origins of Mental Health Legislation in Common Law -- C Deinstitutionalisation and â#x80;#x98;Rights-Basedâ#x80;#x99; Legalism |
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1 Involuntary Interventions Outside Hospital: The Rise of Compulsory Psychiatric Interventions in the â#x80;#x98;Communityâ#x80;#x99;2 Separating Mental Health and Capacity/Guardianship Laws -- D Discussion: Change and Continuity in Mental Health Law -- E Conclusion -- 2 Mental Health, Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ... -- A Introduction -- B The Long Road to Inclusion of Disability and Mental Health in Human Rights Law -- 1 The CRPD and Mental Health Law -- C The Scope of Protected Rights -- 1 Framing Rights -- 2 Operative Rights |
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3 Implementation, Monitoring and the Optional ProtocolD New Tools or New Paradigm? -- E Conclusion -- 3 Major Criticisms of Mental Health Law -- A Introduction -- B Rights-Based Arguments -- 1 Mental Health Law Is Discriminatory -- 2 Mental Health Law Violates International Human Rights Law -- 3 Mental Health Law May Lead to Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- 4 â#x80;#x98;Special Measuresâ#x80;#x99;: Can Lawmakers Justify Differential Treatment? -- a The Incompetence Claim -- b The Public Risk Claim -- c Regulating Treatment and Emergency Powers |
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C Efficacy Arguments: That Mental Health Law Is Ineffective on Its Own Terms1 Lawmakers Cannot Show Mental Health Law Reduces the Risk of Self-Harm -- 2 Mental Health Law Fails to Facilitate Access to Treatment -- 3 â#x80;#x98;Involuntary Outpatient Treatmentâ#x80;#x99; Is Ineffective -- 4 Mental Health Law Codifies Medical Discretion, Control and Regulation -- D Pragmatic Concerns -- 1 Mental Health Law Fails to Protect against the â#x80;#x98;Tyranny of the Majorityâ#x80;#x99; -- 2 â#x80;#x98;Voluntarismâ#x80;#x99; in the Shadow of Compulsion -- 3 Coercion Interrupts the Development of Decision-Making Skills |
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4 The Competing Aims of Mental Health Law Blurs Decision-Making Processes5 The Medical Model Dominates in Mental Health Law -- 6 Family, Friends, Partners and Other Informal Supporters Are Sidelined -- 7 Perverse Incentives to Use Coercive Mechanisms -- E Conclusion -- Part II The CRPD Support Framework and Mental Health: New Tools or New Paradigm? -- 4 The CRPD Support Framework -- A Introduction -- B Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law -- C The CRPD Support Framework: Key Concepts -- 1 Support to Exercise Legal Capacity -- 2 Substituted Decision- Making |
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""3 Replacing â#x80;#x98;Best Interestsâ#x80;#x99; with â#x80;#x98;Will, Preference and Rightsâ#x80;#x99;"" |
| Summary |
International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mental health laws.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. |
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Mental health laws |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gooding, Piers. A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy : Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2017 9781107140745 |
| ISBN |
9781108518390 (electronic bk.) |
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1108518397 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108524353 (electronic bk.) |
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1108524354 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316493106 |
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1316493105 |
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1107140749 |
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9781107140745 |
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9781316506134 (paperback) |
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