Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law 1st Edition by Brendan Kelly, Mary Donnelly 100098494X 9781000984941

PART 1 Background and context

1 History and development of mental health law

2 Independent mental health monitoring: Evaluating the Care Quality Commission in England’s approach to regulation, rights, and risks

3 The relationship between ethics and law in mental healthcare

PART 2 European and international standards

4 The European Court’s incremental approach to the protection of liberty, dignity and autonomy

5 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and mental health laws: Requirements and responses

6 Responses to the World Health Organization’s QualityRights initiative

PART 3 Specific groups

7 Children’s mental health care: Decision-making and human rights

8 People with learning disabilityScotland and beyond

9 Mental health laws and older adults

10 Abuse, neglect, and adult safeguarding in the context of mental health and disability

11 The use of trans-related diagnoses in health care and legal gender recognition: From disease- to identity-based models

12 Personality disorder in mental health law and criminal law

PART 4 Forensic psychiatry and criminal law

13 Mental illness and criminal law: Irreconcilable bedfellows?

14 The principles of forensic psychology and criminal law—an American perspective

15 Mental capacity in forensic psychiatry in a comparative context

16 Capturing mental health issues in international criminal law and justice: The input of the International Criminal Court

PART 5 Issues, controversies, challenges

17 Decision-making capacity in mental health law

18 Risk of harm and involuntary psychiatric treatment

19 Compulsory community treatment: Is it the least restrictive alternative?

20 Socio-economic inclusion and mental health law

21 The right to mental health care in mental health legislation

22 Mental health, discrimination and employment law

23 Family in mental health law: Responding to relationality

24 Consenting for prevention: The ethics of ambivalent choice in psychiatric genomics

PART 6 Developments in specific regions and jurisdictions

25 Change or improvement? Mental health law reform in Africa

26 Mental health law and practice in Ghana: An examination of the implementation of Act 846

27 Regulating mental health care in South Africa: Assessing the right to legal capacity and the right to the highest attainable standard of health in South African law and policy

28 Untapped potential of China’s mental health law reform

29 Colonization, history and the evolution of mental health legislation in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

30 India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: A promise for transformation and radical change

31 An alternative to mental health law: The Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

32 Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru: The relationship of mental health law and legal capacity

33 Mental health policies in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking South American countries

PART 7 Future directions

34 Interdisciplinary collaboration in the mental health Sector: The role of the law

35 The Mental Health and Justice project: Reflections on strong interdisciplinarity

36 ‘Digitising the Mental Health Act’: Are we facing the app-ification and platformisation of coercion in mental health services?

37 Mental health law: A global future?

38 The future of mental health law: Abolition or reform?

39 The future of mental health law: The need for deeper examination and broader scope

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