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Mental health-related legal concepts include mens rea, insanity defences; legal definitions of "sane," "insane," and "incompetent;" informed consent; and automatism, amongst many others. Statutory law usually takes the form of a mental health statute. An example is the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales. These acts codify aspects of ...
A mental capacity assessment in respect of a lower-level day-to-day decision may be made by a carer or relative and need not be formally recorded, but capacity assessments about decisions that are complex or have important ramifications for the person are made by social workers, doctors or multi-disciplinary teams on behalf of local authorities ...
The Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 (c. 52) The Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999 (asp 1) The Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1999 (c. 32) The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, an Act of the Scottish Parliament; The Mental Health Act 2007, an Act of the Parliament of ...
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c. 9) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England and Wales. [3] Its primary purpose is to provide a legal framework for acting and making decisions on behalf of adults who lack the capacity to make particular decisions for themselves.
In November 2004, voters in the U.S. state of California passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which has been designed to expand and transform California's county mental health service systems. The MHSA is funded by imposing an additional one percent tax on individual, but not corporate, taxable income in excess of one ...
The Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care (MI Principles) were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1991. They provide agreed but non-legally-binding basic standards that mental health systems should meet and rights that people diagnosed with mental disorder should have.
The Nearest Relative Handbook by David Hewitt details the complicated legal issues around the definition of, powers, declaration and displacement of the nearest relative and has been updated to include the new amended Mental Health Act 2007. The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law by Rob Brown (Exeter: Learning ...
The Goldwater rule is Section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics, [1] which states that psychiatrists have a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community and the betterment of public health, but when asked to comment on public figures, they shall refrain ...