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Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law

Book information

Publisher
Hart Publishing
Year
2003
ISBN
9781472559432, 9781841133434
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1078264 bytes)
Pages
\232
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:06:16

Description

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, provides a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.

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