Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law

Brendan D. Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Mary Donnelly is Professor of Law at University College Cork, Ireland.

Introduction; 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; 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 Law: 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 Disability: Scotland 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 Healthcare and Legal Gender Recognition: From Disease- to Identity-Based Models; 12. Personality Disorder in Mental Health 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; 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; 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 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. Colonisation, 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, Columbia and Peru: Mental Health Law and Legal Capacity; 33. Mental Health Policies in Spanish and Portuguese Speaking South American Countries; Part 7: Future Directions; 34. Inter-disciplinary Collaboration in the Mental Health Sector: The Role of 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