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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mental Health Act"”.
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An Appreciative Inquiry into Approved Mental Health Professional decision- making at the point of referral for a Mental Health Act assessment
In England and Wales, the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 provides a legal framework for psychiatric detention, requiring two medical recommendations from legally defined doctors, and an application from an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Civil detentions are the result of an assessment …
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Experiences of adults from a Black Minority Ethnic (BME) background who have been detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983).
… background detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983; 2007). Background: Significantly more people from a BME background are detained under the Mental Health Act (1983; 2007) than people from White ethnic backgrounds, and this has been consistent for decades. Research has …
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A programme to facilitate the implementation of Mental Health Care Act 17 of 2002 by Medical doctors in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
The Mental Health Act is the law which sets out when you can be admitted, detained, and treated in hospital against your wishes. It is also known as being “sectioned”. For this to happen, certain people must agree that you have a mental disorder that requires a stay in hospital. In South Africa, …
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Extending Our Promise: Providing Help to Mentally Ill Accused As Soon As Practicable
… the current state of the criminal law’s interaction with mentally ill persons, with a specific interest in this interaction during pre-trial phases such as arrest and bail. It argues that the current provisions in the Criminal Code of Canada that allow for limited instances of pre-trial mental …
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Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002
… by patients referred to hospital under the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 have been noted. There is little documented about the knowledge and understanding of prehospital providers of the mental healthcare act, their responsibilities and the issues around patient competence and refusal of …
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Quantitative investigations of compassion satisfaction and challenges to compassion in mental health professionals
… section of the thesis explored ‘compassion satisfaction’ (CS): a positive effect of caregiving where gratification is derived from caring for patients. Stamm’s model of professional quality of life was employed to analyse 16 quantitative studies for evidence of predictors and correlates of CS in …
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Community based mental health care: a necessity for realising the right to independent living and community inclusion of persons with mental disabilities in Uganda
… advocates for the provision of community based mental health care as a key strategy in promoting the realisation of the right to independent living and community inclusion for persons with mental disabilities (PWMDs) in Uganda. Uganda ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of …
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Mental Health Service Utilisation Disparities Between South Asian, Black Caribbean, and White British Populations in England: A Systematic Review
Background: Inequality in mental health cutting across ethnic groups has existed in England, and the pattern of service uptake varies widely among the South Asian group, Black Caribbean and the White British. Although ethnic minority groups have similar or even greater occurrences of mental health …
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The role of the advocate for the detained patient: a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective of advocacy in psychosis
… as a right in 2009 under amendments to the Mental Health Act (1983, 2007), detained patients who are diagnosed with a serious mental illness and deemed to be a danger to themselves or others can utilise advocacy as a means to express their own views, obtain information, secure and exercise …
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Involuntary admission of young people to approved centres in Ireland: finding the voice of the young person a rights-based perspective
… Given the prevalence of young people with mental health difficulties in Ireland and our domestic and legal obligations to ensure that their voices are heard in all matters that affect them, it is timely to consider the extent to which this is achieved in the mental health context and to …
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On being a mental health service user and becoming a service user representative: an autoethnography.
… as a Service User Representative with the Dorset Mental Health Forum over several years leading up to 2010. This is a period of change in both the social care and health worlds as they impact on to people suffering from mental distress. In this period are introduced Personal Budgets and a …
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The Black Majority Church: exploring the impact of faith and a faith community on mental health and well-being
… people continue to be over-represented in the mental health system compared to their white counterparts; are more likely to be diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’; more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act and, since 2009, are more likely to be placed on community treatment orders …
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A critical analysis of the right to liberty of persons with psychosocial disabilities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Convention on Human Rights
… 14 of the CRPD, specifically focusing on the impact of the social model of disability on that provision, as well as the need to view the right to liberty of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the context of other provisions of the CPRD, particularly Articles 19 and 25. The jurisprudence of …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
Introduction <br/>‘Leave' occurs when a mental health inpatient exits their hospital ward with authorised permission; limited research has explored the use of leave, nor its implementation in practice (Barlow and Dickens 2018). This study determines the content of leave policies, which operate …