Working with the Mental Health Act
Author: Steven Richards
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780955234927
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Code of Practice
Author: Great Britain. Department of Health
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780113228096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Code of Practice is a reference tool for those dealing with, and caring for people admitted to hospital and care homes with mental health problems. Authored by the Department of Health and produced following wide consultation with those who provide and receive services under the Mental Health Act, this publication will come into force on 3 November 2008. Through the Mental Health Act 2007, the Government has updated the 1983 Act to ensure it keeps pace with the changes in the way that mental health services are - and need to be - delivered. This publication provides guidance and advice to registered medical practitioners, approved clinicians, managers and staff of hospitals, and approved mental health professionals on how they should proceed when undertaking duties under the Act. It also gives guidance to doctors and other professionals about certain aspects of medical treatment for mental disorder more generally. The Mental Health Act Code of Practice is also aimed at all of those working in primary care, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts as well as solicitors and attorneys who advise on mental health law. The Code should also be beneficial to the police and ambulance services and others in health and social services (including the independent and voluntary sectors) involved in providing services to people who are, or may become, subject to compulsory measures under the Act. It will also be a guide for those working with people with specific mental health needs such as those in nursing and care homes, and those in prison.
Workplace Mental Health Law
Author: Takenori Mishiba
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-12
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1000076849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries. The work presents a study of the laws, policies, and legal interpretations to help prevent mental health problems from occurring in the workplace and appropriately address problems once they do occur. With a view to improving provision in Japan, the author examines the legal issues relating to workplace mental health and stress in the USA, UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Germany. In presenting a comparative discussion of mental health issues in the workplace, this book seeks to establish a minimum for legal rights and duties that contribute to prevention and not just compensation. With its detailed comparative and descriptive coverage of legal and related provisions in a range of countries, the book will be a valuable resource for academics, policy-makers and practitioners working in labour and employment law, social welfare, occupational health and human resource management.
Essential Mental Health Law
Author: Anthony Maden
Publisher: Hammersmith Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781905140299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMental Health Act redefines mental disorder and removes the 'treatability' test. These and other changes have caused great controversy, but the legislation is in place there is a need to understand what it means for the individual practitioner when making decisions about the care of individual patients. This guide provided this understanding.
Mental Disorder, Work Disability, and the Law
Author: Richard J. Bonnie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226064505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA barrage of "handbooks" and "resource manuals" aimed at employers and legal practitioners on the employment rights of people with disabilities has begun to appear. Until now, however, there has been no serious book-length scholarly treatment of how mental disorder can affect work, how work can affect mental disorder, and the role of law in addressing employment discrimination based on mental rather than physical disability. In Mental Disorder, Work Disability and the Law, the editors bring together original work by leading scholars who have studied mental disorder and work disability from the fields of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, law, and economics. The authors' contributions build upon one another to create the first integrated account of the important policy issues at stake when law deals with the rights of mentally disordered citizens to work when they are able to, and to receive benefits when they are not. This book will be of great value to scholars in law and the mental health professions and to policy makers and the administrators of disability programs.
Working with the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Author: Steven Richards
Publisher: Matrix Training Associates
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780955234903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
Author: Linda Tashbook
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0190622229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Guide to Mental Illness and the Law offers the nuts-and-bolts legal information and problem-solving steps families need. This accessible resource explains how common legal issues uniquely impact people with various forms of mental illness and what family members can do to help.
Court of Last Resort
Author: Carol A. B. Warren
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984-08
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226873893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of mental health and the law.
Common Mental Health Disorders
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781908020314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.
Mental Health Law
Author: Peter Bartlett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 019927827X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the legal structure of the mental health system, this book explains the legal principles. It places them in the context of their practical application, the realities of patient life, and the complexities of organising care. This edition gives an analysis of the Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and the Draft Mental Health Bill.
