A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

ISBN-13: 9781316506134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 295 str.

Piers Gooding

Opis

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.

Recenzje

'The book looks at how the CRPD and its articulation of autonomy, human dignity and solidarity provide a conceptual and practical alternative to existing mental health legislation. It challenges long-held views on mental health legislation and is a timely development given major issues facing mental health systems in Western high-income countries, on which the book concentrates.' Martin Curtice, The British Journal of Psychiatry

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. What Do Human Rights Mean for Mental Health Law?: 1. Mental health law: purpose and procedures; 2. Mental health, law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: new tools or new paradigm?; 3. Major criticisms of mental health law; Part II. The CRPD-Support Framework and Mental Health: New Tools or New Paradigm?: 4. The CRPD-support framework; 5. Applying the CRPD-support framework in law; 6. Practical examples of the CRPD-suport approach in the mental health context; 7. Navigating the 'flashing amber lights' of the CRPD-support framework: addressing major concerns; Conclusion.