HCR-20. Assessing risk for violence, version 2. By C. Webster, K. Douglas, D. Eaves and S. Hart. Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute, British Columbia. 1997. 98 + vii pp

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
pp. S77-S78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Policy Institute

scholarly journals Mental health law in Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Chaskel ◽  
James M. Shultz ◽  
Silvia L. Gaviria ◽  
Eliana Taborda ◽  
Roland Vanegas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Health Laws

Mental health law in Colombia has evolved over the past 50 years, in concert with worldwide recognition and prioritisation of mental healthcare. Laws and policies have become increasingly sophisticated to accommodate the ongoing transformations throughout Colombia's healthcare system and improvements in mental health screening, treatment and supportive care. Mental health law and policy development have been informed by epidemiological data on patterns of mental disorders in Colombia. Colombia is distinguished by the fact that its mental health laws and policies have been formulated during a 60-year period of continuous armed conflict. The mental health of Colombian citizens has been affected by population-wide exposure to violence and, accordingly, the mental health laws that have been enacted reflect this feature of the Colombian experience.

Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fanning
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Law And Policy

Silencing Prote(x)t: Disrupting the Scripts of Mental Health Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Disability Law ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

This article interrogates how civil mental health law providing for forced mental health interventions defines and produces vulnerability. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, a concept of ‘intercorporeal vulnerability’, emphasising ways in which vulnerability may be generated through the interaction between sociopolitical forces and human bodies, is adopted. Vulnerabilities arising in the mental health law context which tend to be unrecognised or disavowed in a manner that reaffirms dominant discourses about madness, disability and normalcy are identified. Based on this analysis, it is argued that formal deployment of ‘vulnerability’ within disability law and policy may problematically reinscribe disability within a negative vulnerability status. It is further argued that methodological approaches examining intersections between different sites of identity, power and historicity are imperative to ensure that injustice and inequality can be named, exposed and challenged. The productive and transformative potential of the relationship between vulnerability and resistance is also considered.

Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Kath O'Donnell ◽  
Barbara Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Law And Policy
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