Making Choices: Challenges for Advocates and Elderly Nursing Home Residents With Mental Illness—by Robert Bernstein, Ph.D., Beth Pepper, and Lee Carty; Mental Health Law Project, June 1991, 28 pages. Available for $4.80 from MHLP Elders Project, 1101 15th Street, N.W., Suite 1212, Washington, D.C. 20005

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-a-187
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Making Choices

scholarly journals The new French mental health law regarding psychiatric involuntary treatment

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Louis Senon ◽  
Carol Jonas ◽  
Michel Botbol
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Need For Treatment ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
Legal Procedures

The French Republic has had four laws governing the detention of people with a mental illness. The first dates from 1838 and remained in place until 1990. The most recent one was issued on 27 September 2013; it confirmed the role of the judge and strengthened the legal procedures. This new French mental health law is an attempt to find a balance between the protection of patients' rights and the need for treatment.

scholarly journals Mental health legislation in Chile

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-92
Author(s):  
Andrea Bahamondes ◽  
Alvaro Barrera ◽  
Jorge Calderón ◽  
Martin Cordero ◽  
Héctor Duque
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
The 19Th Century

Chile does not have a mental health law or act, and no single legal body protecting those deemed to be afflicted by a mental disorder, setting standards of care and protecting and promoting their rights. Instead, pieces of mental health legislation are scattered about in different legal and administrative documents, including the country's Constitution, Health Code, Criminal Code and Civil Code. Remarkably, mental health legislation was the object of virtually no change or amendment from the middle of the 19th century until the year 2001. New pieces of legislation have been issued since but, despite improvements in the protection of people suffering from a mental illness, a mental health law in Chile is still needed.

scholarly journals Kenya's mental health law

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Ndetei ◽  
Job Muthike ◽  
Erick S. Nandoya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
International Rights ◽  
State Protection

Kenya's Mental Health Act 1989 is now outdated. It is a signatory to international rights conventions that provide for state protection of the rights of people with mental illness, their property and their treatment. There is, however, a glaring failure to implement the existing legal provisions. A new Mental Health Bill that aims to respond comprehensively to the challenges affecting mental health services in Kenya is awaiting enactment.

scholarly journals Nursing Home Social Work With Residents With Severe Mental Illness, Thoughts of Suicide, or Dementia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 117-117
Author(s):  
Mercedes Bern-Klug ◽  
Amy Restorick Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Nationally Representative

Abstract Many of the close to 3 million persons who receive care in a U.S. nursing home in any given year face mental-health-related challenges that range from minor to severe. One of the core professionals involved with care planning for the psychosocial needs of nursing home residents with mental health concerns is the social worker. Reporting data from a 2019 nationally representative survey of nursing home social services directors, this session provides information about the training needs of nursing home social workers in terms of their work with residents diagnosed with a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or severe depression, residents who are suicidal, and residents with dementia.

Bipolar disorder

2020 ◽  
pp. 6498-6501
Author(s):  
Kate E.A. Saunders ◽  
John Geddes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Depressed Mood ◽  
Chronic Mental Illness ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Mood Instability ◽  
Depressive States

Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable, lifelong, relapsing, and remitting chronic mental illness. While traditionally characterized as a disorder with distinct periods of elated and depressed mood, it is now clear that interepisode mood instability is common. Comorbid psychiatric and medical conditions are common. When occurring in medical settings mania can be both disruptive and hazardous, and may require active psychiatric management. Pharmacological approaches are the mainstay of treatment, although adjunctive psychotherapies are helpful in preventing relapse. Compulsory detention in hospital using mental health law may sometimes be required for both manic and depressive states.

scholarly journals Mental health law in Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amina Tareen ◽  
Khalida Ijaz Tareen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

Continued efforts to produce appropriate mental health legislation in Pakistan led to the Mental Health Ordinance of 2001. However, with the 18th amendment to the constitution and devolution of health responsibilities to the provincial governments, it became the task of the provinces to pass appropriate mental health legislation through their respective assemblies. Currently the mental health legislative picture is fragmented and unsatisfactory. Only the provinces of Sindh and Punjab have a mental health act in place and there is an urgent need for similar legislative frameworks in other provinces to protect the rights of those with mental illness.

How mental health law discriminates against persons with mental illness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Szmukler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Patient Autonomy ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
People With Mental Illness

Mental health law discriminates against people with mental illness when it comes to detention and involuntary treatment. This is evident when we compare such law with that applying in the rest of medicine, certainly in countries with well-developed legal systems. Mental health law fails to respect patient ‘autonomy’ (or self-determination) in the same way as it does in the rest of medicine. Furthermore, a confusion between a person’s health interests and the protection of others results in laws permitting the preventive detention of people with mental disorders—probably uniquely so—on the basis of ‘risk’ of harm, without any offence having been committed. Though people with mental illness are responsible for a very small percentage of violent offences, they can be preventively detained—on grounds reserved for them—while people without a mental illness—equally risky to others or even more so—cannot.

The Mental Illness of Captain Hyndman

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham A. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
South Wales

The mental illness of Captain Charles Robertson Hyndman resulted in his compulsory hospitalization in Tarban Creek Asylum in 1843 and 1864–1866. His illness, and the question of mental health law which was subsequently raised, were of great significance for the colony of New South Wales in that it led to the first specific lunacy legislation in the state. The issues raised are still the fundamental questions with which contemporary mental health law is concerned.

scholarly journals Knowledge of mental health law and attitude toward mental illness among attorneys in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
OluyemiO Akanni ◽  
NosaG Igbinomwanhia ◽  
Adegboyega Ogunwale ◽  
AdeagboF Osundina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law
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