Title: Decisions and Dilemmas
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, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed
Subjects: Mental health laws, Mental Health Services, Legislation & jurisprudence, Commitment of Mentally Ill, Mentally Disabled Persons, Mental health laws, great britain, Mentally disabled persons--legislation & jurisprudence, Commitment of mentally ill--legislation & jurisprudence, Mental health services--legislation & jurisprudence, Mental health laws--great britain, Kd737 .p42x 2003, 2003 i-838, Wm 33 fa1 p363d 2003