This multidisciplinary team of authors has produced a clear, clinically relevant guide to all aspects of mental health law implementation. This is an introductory book, appropriate for students and trainees embarking on mental health nursing, psychiatry, clinical psychology or mental health social work, but with sufficient detail to carry readers through to the complex issues that will continue to face them during their years of practice. Providing a highly readable account of the subject, it also serves as a well-referenced handbook. To ensure that this is an authoritative guide throughout, specialist authors have joined the team to contribute chapters on Children and Learning Disabilities, and the whole manuscript has been reviewed by solicitors specializing in mental health law and in criminal law.

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Mental health law handbook : a practical guide

Puri, Basant, Brown, Rob, McKee, Heather, Treasaden, Ian

Hodder Arnold ; Distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press

A Hodder Arnold Publication

Hodder Children's Books

Hodder and Stoughton

Hodder Education

CRC Press

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), London, 2005

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1 edition, March 18, 2005

London, New York, 2005

Sevenoaks, 2005

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Book title......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Legal advisors......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
1 History of mental health legislation......Page 10
2 Defitions used in mental health legislation......Page 20
3 Compulsory admission to hospital......Page 27
4 Guardianship and supervised aftercare......Page 37
5 Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence......Page 49
6 Consent to treatment......Page 72
7 Mental health, medication and the law......Page 85
8 Professional liability and negligence......Page 94
9 Mental Health Review Tribunals......Page 112
10 The Mental Health Act Commission......Page 119
11 The Code of Practice, including its legal standing......Page 124
12 Removal and return of patients to and from England and Wales......Page 132
13 Management of property and affairs of patients......Page 138
14 Approved social workers......Page 143
15 Assessment of risk of violence......Page 153
16 Suicidal patients......Page 172
17 Children’s mental health law......Page 179
18 Old age......Page 196
19 People with learning disabilities......Page 198
20 Race, culture and mental health......Page 209
21 Mental capacity and international comparison of mental health legislation......Page 213
22 The Human Rights Act 1998......Page 224
Appendix I: Some key recent mental health cases (2000 to August 2004)......Page 230
Appendix II: Summary of civil treatment codes......Page 242
Appendix III: The police, the courts and mental health......Page 244
Appendix IV: Flowchart of decisions involving consent to treatment......Page 245
Appendix V: Sample forms......Page 246
B......Page 254
C......Page 255
E......Page 256
H......Page 257
M......Page 258
P......Page 260
R......Page 261
S......Page 262
W......Page 263

Psychiatrists, Approved Social Workers and Mental Health Nurses require a clear understanding of mental health legislation and case law in addition to clinical knowledge for their practice. All this information, and more, is provided in Mental Health Law: a practical guide. Multi-disciplinary in approach, this book provides all you need to kno

Highly Commended, RSM/Society of Authors Book Awards 2005 This multidisciplinary team of authors has produced a clear, clinically relevant guide to all aspects of mental health law implementation. Providing a highly readable account of the subject, it also serves as a well-referenced handbook.

Introducing legislation relevant to those studying or working in the field of mental health, this title explains concepts that are often faced during practice

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