Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law

by Jill Peay

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841133434
• ISBN13: 9781841133430
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"