Overview

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 specialising in mental health law and in criminal law.

Full Product Details

Author:   Basant Puri ,  Rob Brown ,  Heather McKee ,  Ian Treasaden
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780340885031

ISBN 10:   0340885033
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Replaced By:   9781444117141
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 History of Mental Health legislation Chapter 2 Definitions used in Mental Health legislation Chapter 3 Compulsory admission to hospital Chapter 4 Guardianship and supervised aftercare Chapter 5 Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence Chapter 6 Consent to treatment Chapter 7 Mental health, medication and the law (co-written by Dr Christine Dixon) Chapter 8 Professional liability and negligence Chapter 9 Mental health review tribunals Chapter 10 The role of the Mental Health Act Commission Chapter 11 Code of practice, including its legal standing Chapter 12 Removal and return of patients to and from England and Wales Chapter 13 Management of property and affairs of patients Chapter 14 Approved Social Workers Chapter 15 The assessment of risk of violence Chapter 16 Suicidal patients Chapter 17 ChildrenaEURO (TM)s Mental Health Law (by Dr. Paul J. Laking) Chapter 18 Old age Chapter 19 People with learning disabilities (by Dr. Angela Hassiotis) Chapter 20 Race, culture and mental health Chapter 21 Mental capacity and international comparison of mental health legislation Chapter 22 The Human Rights Act 1998 Appendices (i) Legal cases (ii) Summary of civil treatment codes (iii) The police, the courts and mental health (iv) Flowchart of decisions involving consent to treatment (v) Sample forms Index

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Basant K. Puri MA PhD MB BChir BSc (Hons) MathSci MRCPsych DipStat MMath Professor of Imaging and Psychiatry, MRI Unit,Imaging Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, London; Honorary Consultant in Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK Robert A. Brown MA Course Director for the Approved Social Workers course in South West England, Mental Health Act Commissioner, Visiting Fellow Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Heather J. McKee MB ChB BAO MRCPsych LLM Consultant Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK Ian H. Treasaden MB BS LRCP MRCS MRCPsych Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Three Bridges Medium Secure Unit, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London; Hononary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

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