Mental Health Law

Content: Cover
 Book title
 Contents
 Contributors
 Legal advisors
 Preface
 1. History of mental health legislation
 2. Definitions used in mental health legislation
 3. Professional roles
 4. Safeguards for patients under the Mental Health Act
 5. Compulsory Admission to Hospital: (Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Mental Health Act)
 6. Consent to Treatment Provisions under the Mental Health Act
 7. Community Treatment Orders, Leave of Absence and After-care
 8. Guardianship (Sections 7 or 37 of the Mental Health Act)
 9. Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence. 10. Mental Health Tribunals11. Hospital Managers
 12. Cross-border arrangements
 13. The Mental Health Act Code of Practice and the Reference Guide
 14. The Care Quality Commission
 15. Consent and Capacity
 16. The Mental Capacity Act 2005: Principles
 17. Mental Capacity Act 2005: Provisions
 18. Assessment of Capacity
 19. Safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
 20. The Mental Capacity Act Codes of Practice
 21. Human Rights Act 1998 in mental health legislation in the UK
 22. Mental health, medication and the law
 23. Research ethics
 24. Child mental health law. 25. Race, culture and mental health26. Suicidal patients
 27. Assessment of risk of violence
 28. International comparison of mental health legislation
 Appendix I: Legal cases
 Appendix II: Summary of civil treatment codes
 Appendix III: Summary of civil compulsion sections
 Appendix IV: Flowchart of decisions involving consent to treatment
 Appendix V: Sample forms
 Index
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