Mental Health Law

Brenda M. Hoggett (Autor)

Buch

336 Seiten

1996 | 4th Revised edition
Sweet & Maxwell (Verlag)
978-0-421-52210-7 (ISBN)

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This handbook addresses every issue in the field of mental health law, from mental disorder and the grounds for compulsion, to the role of social workers and relatives. The work appraises developments in Community Care, and recent High Court and Tribunal decisions surrounding mental health.

Mental Health Law addresses every issue in the field, from hospital admission, mental disorder and the grounds for compulsion, to the role of social workers, relatives and doctors. Recent developments in mental health law including the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 are rigorously appraised. This work will prove to be invaluable for anyone studying mental health law.

The fundamental concepts of mental disorder; the scheme for hospital admission; the machinery of civil commitment; the mentally disordered offender; treatment and management in hospital and leaving hospital, whether by discharge or absconding; the machinery that may be encountered such as the Mental Health Review Tribunals, the Court of Protection and the Home Secretary's powers; the intricacies of the Mental Health Act 1983 and the latest legislation including the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.4.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
ISBN-10	0-421-52210-0 / 0421522100
ISBN-13	978-0-421-52210-7 / 9780421522107
Zustand	Neuware