scholarly journals Mental health legislation in Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Anja Malmendier-Muehlschlegel ◽  
Niamh Catherine Power
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Mentally Ill Offenders ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
Voluntary Community

The article provides a brief overview of the legislation governing involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals in Luxembourg. The legislation was completely overhauled in 2009 and several human rights principles are enshrined into it. Emphasis is placed on voluntary, community-based treatment, and where compulsory treatment is required, it uses the least restrictive treatment option. Mentally ill offenders are dealt with through separate specialist legislation. Young people under the age of 18 are often detained using family law.

scholarly journals Involuntary community treatment in New South Wales, Australia

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hambridge ◽  
Nicola Watt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

The New South Wales Mental Health Act (1990) heralded a number of important changes to mental health legislation in the state. One of these was the option to give compulsory treatment to mentally ill clients living in the community. This article briefly explains community treatment under the Act, and the perceived benefits and the limitations of such legislation. A case example is used to illustrate some of these points. Involuntary community treatment is seen as a less restrictive alternative to hospitalisation for a number of mentally ill clients, but the use of such provisions demands significant resources from the supervising agency.

scholarly journals Compulsory admission and involuntary treatment in Portugal

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Telma Almeida ◽  
Andrew Molodynski
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Compulsory Admission ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

This paper details the grounds for compulsory treatment, compulsory admissions in an emergency department and compulsory out-patient treatment in Portugal. Portuguese mental health legislation has improved significantly over recent years, with enhanced safeguards, rapid and rigorous review and clear criteria for compulsory treatment, although much remains to be done, especially in relation to the ‘move into the community’.

scholarly journals Information, consent and perceived coercion: patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana S. Rose ◽  
Til H. Wykes ◽  
Jonathan P. Bindman ◽  
Pete S. Fleischmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Electroconvulsive Therapy ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Perceived Coercion ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

BackgroundElectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure that attracts special safeguards under common law for voluntary patients and under both current and proposed mental health legislation, for those receiving compulsory treatment.AimsTo review patients' views on issues of information, consent and perceived coercion.MethodSeventeen papers and reports were identified that dealt with patients' views on information and consent in relation to ECT; 134 ‘testimonies' or first-hand accounts were identified. The papers and reports were subjected to a descriptive systematic review. The testimony data were analysed qualitatively.ResultsApproximately half the patients reported that they had received sufficient information about ECT and side-effects. Approximately a third did not feel they had freely consented to ECTeven when they had signed a consent form. Clinician-led research evaluates these findings to mean that patients trust their doctors, whereas user-led work evaluates similar findings as showing inadequacies in informed consent.ConclusionNeither current nor proposed safeguards for patients are sufficient to ensure informed consent with respect to ECT, at least in England and Wales.

scholarly journals Jurisdiction of Mental Health Tribunals to Provide Positive Remedies: Application, Challenges, and Prospects

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-298
Author(s):  
Joaquin Zuckerberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Adequate Care ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
State Interference

Modern mental health legislation protects the civil rights of the mentally ill by limiting the scope of permissible state interference with an individual’s autonomy. It also generally sets up mental health tribunals in charge of reviewing compliance with parts of the legislation. However, the legislation does not generally address the right to adequate mental health care. The latter (or its lack thereof) has increasingly become a source of debate among scholars and policy makers. The right to adequate care is increasingly being seen as the sine qua non of the civil rights of the mentally ill. This article explores recent Canadian jurisprudence dealing with the power of administrative tribunals to address constitutional and quasi-constitutional claims, and questions whether such power could give rise to a claim for adequate health care before mental health tribunals. It argues that, subject to some limited circumstances where mental tribunals have been given certain discretion to factor adequate care into their decisions, the recent Canadian jurisprudence does not significantly modify the limited remedies available before mental health tribunals.

scholarly journals MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND RELEVANT LEGISLATION IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-126
Author(s):  
Shafquat Inayat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

Mental health legislation compiles and integrates fundamental doctrine, principles, goals, objectives and mental health policy. This legislation is required to assure that the self-respect and the dignity of patients is conserved and that their fundamental rights are protected. This article considers legislation in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, especially the Mental Health Act in Pakistan, and asserts that the act has limitation that serve as a barrier to mental health services currently provided in Pakistan. The purpose of this article is to identify the mental health legislation in a developing country like Pakistan. It also emphasizes the need of a modern mental health law that provides priority to protect the rights of patient with mental disorder to promote development of community based care and improves its access.

Medical-protective regime and its significance in the process of enforcement of compulsory medical measures in stationary conditions

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Александра Викторовна Васеловская
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Logical Language ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stationary Conditions

Применение принудительных мер медицинского характера в стационарных условиях влечет за собой изоляцию психически больного лица от общества посредством помещения его в психиатрический стационар на заранее не определенный срок. Применение данной меры связано с существенными ограничениями прав и свобод граждан, а потому требует четкой правовой регламентации. Предметом рассмотрения настоящей статьи стали вопросы правового регулирования порядка установления и обеспечения лечебно-охранительного режима психиатрического стационара, исполняющего принудительное лечение. В процессе работы над статьей были использованы как общенаучные (анализ, синтез), так и частнонаучные (формально-юридический, логико-языковой, статистические) методы, позволившие провести комплексный анализ категории «лечебно-охранительный режим» применительно к принудительным мерам медицинского характера. Исследование показало, что предусмотренные действующим уголовным законом типы психиатрических стационаров, исполняющих принудительное лечение, различаются между собой условиями пребывания в них психически больных лиц. Необходимость установления различных условий пребывания обусловлена, в свою очередь, разной степенью общественной опасности лиц, которым назначено принудительное лечение. Лечебно-охранительный режим устанавливает порядок пребывания лиц в отделениях для принудительного лечения и создает наиболее оптимальные и безопасные условия для лечения указанных лиц. С учетом представленных в статье выводов автором обосновывается позиция о необходимости закрепления в законе понятия лечебно-охранительного режима психиатрического стационара, исполняющего принудительные меры медицинского характера, а также необходимость разработки и принятия типовых правил внутреннего распорядка, определяющих особенности лечебно-охранительного режима в зависимости от типов психиатрических стационаров. The use of compulsory medical measures in stationary conditions entails the isolation of a mentally ill person from society by placing him in a psychiatric hospital for an indefinite period. The application of this measure has special restrictions on the rights and freedoms of people, and therefore requires clear legal regulation. The subject of this article is the issues of legal regulation of the procedure for establishing and ensuring the medical-protective regime of a psychiatric hospital performing compulsory treatment. In the process of work on the article there were used both general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis) and private scientific methods (formal-legal, logical-language, statistical), which made it possible to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the category "medical-protective regime" in relation to compulsory medical measures. The study showed that the types of psychiatric hospitals that perform compulsory treatment differ among themselves in the conditions of stay of mentally ill persons in them. The need to establish different conditions is due, in turn, to the different degree of social danger of persons who are assigned compulsory treatment. The medical-protection regime establishes the procedure for the stay of persons in departments for compulsory treatment and creates the most optimal and safe conditions for the treatment of these persons. Taking into account the conclusions presented in the article, the author substantiates the position concerning the necessity to consolidate in the law the concept of a medical-protective regime of a psychiatric hospital, performing compulsory medical measures. It is also necessary to develop and adopt standard internal regulations that determine the features of the medical-protective regime, depending on the types of psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatric Reform in Italy—How does it Work in Piedmont?

1985 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Becker
Keyword(s):  
Inpatient Care ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Drastic Reduction ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Psychiatric Reform ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
Community Based Services ◽  
New System

Psychiatric reform in Piedmont following new mental health legislation in Italy (1978) is described. The process of reform is characterised by a drastic reduction in psychiatric hospital populations and the setting-up of a new system of community-based services. The number of hospital admissions remains stable, but the character of inpatient care has changed. The reform involves problems of care for chronic patients.

scholarly journals Compulsory treatment in the community: current legal powers

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffan Davies
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

Reform of mental health legislation has been under consideration for several years in England and Wales (Department of Health, 2000a), where the Mental Health Act 1983 is in force, and in Scotland (Millan Committee Secretariat, 2001), which is governed by the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984. The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 is also under review, although the findings have yet to be published.

scholarly journals Blasphemy laws and mental illness in Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muzaffar Husain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

SummaryThere is emerging evidence that individuals who are mentally ill are over-represented in the group of defendants prosecuted under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. This article discusses the background of blasphemy legislation in Pakistan, and proposes causal interactions between underlying mental illness in the defendant and prosecution for blasphemy. It sketches possible legal safeguards for such blasphemy defendants with mental illness in mental health legislation.

Civil Commitment Trends in Ontario: The Effect of Legislation on Clinical Practice

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A. Martin ◽  
K.D. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatient ◽  
Civil Commitment ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
Over Time

The rationale for and history of civil commitment legislation in Ontario are reviewed The civil commitment rate in Ontario from 1926 to 1980 for provincial psychiatric hospitals, and from 1974 to 1980 for all psychiatric inpatient facilities was analyzed to detect variation in the rate over time and with relevant legislation. The findings indicate that mental health legislation has had little effect on commitment practices in Ontario. In addition, the variation in the commitment rate over the period reviewed cannot be ascribed to inconsistent application by physicians. The other variables affecting the rate are discussed in this context. The need for more descriptive studies of the major determinants of the commitment rate is emphasized.

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