: Jill Peay
: Decisions and Dilemmas Working with Mental Health Law
: Bloomsbury Publishing
: 9781847311009
: 1
: CHF 56.20
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: Arbeits-, Sozialrecht
: English
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.