New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy - Supported Decision Making Un Convention on Rights of Persons With

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. What Do Human Rights Mean for Mental Health Law?: 1. Mental health law: purpose and procedures; 2. Mental health, law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: new tools or new paradigm?; 3. Major criticisms of mental health law; Part II. The CRPD-Support Framework and Mental Health: New Tools or New Paradigm?: 4. The CRPD-support framework; 5. Applying the CRPD-support framework in law; 6. Practical examples of the CRPD-suport approach in the mental health context; 7. Navigating the 'flashing amber lights' of the CRPD-support framework: addressing major concerns; Conclusion.

About the author

Piers Gooding is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. He has held a number of teaching and research appointments, including at Monash University, the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and as a visiting research fellow at King's College London. His research focuses on disability law and policy, with a special focus on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Summary

This book explores the implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for law, policy and practice that respond to the complex issues raised by mental health impairment and disability. It argues that the support framework of the CRPD holds the potential to address persistent shortcomings in mental health law and policy.

Product details

• Authors: Piers Gooding, Piers (University of Melbourne) Gooding
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107140745
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14074-5
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series; Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Mental Health, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Mental Health Law