Decisions and Dilemmas - Working with Mental Health Law

Decisions and Dilemmas - Working with Mental Health Law

von: Jill Peay

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003

ISBN: 9781847311009

Format: PDF

Kopierschutz: DRM

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Decisions and Dilemmas - Working with Mental Health Law


 

In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity ' decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty ' to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.