Download or read book Legislation Affecting Psychiatric Treatment written by World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Mental Health and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advocacy for Mental Health written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series of publications which contain practical guidance to assist policy-makers and planners in member countries with policy development to address public mental health needs and service provision. This volume highlights the importance of advocacy in mental health policy and service development, a relatively new concept, aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It considers the roles of various mental health groups in advocacy and sets out practical steps for implementation, indicating how governments can support advocacy services. The full package of eight volumes in the series is also available (ISBN 0119894173).
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use Conditions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability for women, the highest for men ages 15-44, and the second highest for all men. Effective treatments exist, but services are frequently fragmented and, as with general health care, there are barriers that prevent many from receiving these treatments as designed or at all. The consequences of this are seriousâ€"for these individuals and their families; their employers and the workforce; for the nation's economy; as well as the education, welfare, and justice systems. Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions examines the distinctive characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues. This new volume in the Quality Chasm series puts forth an agenda for improving the quality of this care based on this analysis. Patients and their families, primary health care providers, specialty mental health and substance-use treatment providers, health care organizations, health plans, purchasers of group health care, and all involved in health care for mental and substanceâ€"use conditions will benefit from this guide to achieving better care.
Download or read book Fourth Report Legislation Affecting Psychiatric Treatment written by World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Mental Health and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment Without Consent written by Phil Fennell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it. Treatment Without Consent examines many controversial areas: the use of high-strength drugs and Electro Convulsive Therapy, physical restraint and the vexed issue of the sterilisation of people with learning disabilities. Changing notions of consent are discussed, from the common perception that relatives are able to consent on behalf of the patient, to present-day statutory and common law rules, and recent Law Commission recommendations. This work brings a complex and intriguing area to life; it includes a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography. It is essential reading for historians, lawyers and all those who are interested in the treatment of mental disorder.
Download or read book Legislation Affecting Psychiatric Treatment Fourth Report of the Expert Committee on Mental Health written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislation Affecting Psychiatric Treatment written by World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Mental Health and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislation affecting psychiatric treatment written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHO Resource Book on Mental Health Human Rights and Legislation written by Melvyn Freeman and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights key issues and principles to be considered in the drafting, adoption and implementation of mental health legislation and best practice in mental health services. It contains examples of diverse experiences and practices, as well as extracts of laws and other legal documents from a range of different countries, and a checklist of key policy components. Three main elements of effective mental health legislation are identified, relating to context, content and process.
Download or read book The Politics of Mental Health Legislation written by Clive Unsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with civil aspects of legislation for the mentally ill, and particularly with the historically changing form of civil commitment procedures. Its main theme is the role of the broad political shift towards social interventionism in the early and mid-twentieth century inundermining formal legal safeguards designed to protect patients' civil liberties. The work is not narrowly legal in character; rather, it treats historical material on the emergence of legislation from a sociological perspective. The book spans the period from 1877 to 1983.
Download or read book Mental Health and Law written by Alan A. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Download or read book Common Mental Health Disorders written by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.
Download or read book Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law written by Jill Peay and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the complex and sometimes volatile area of mental health law, Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law provides ready access to key articles from around the world. Selected contents: Introduction PRINCIPLES N. Rose (1985) Unreasonable rights: mental illness and the limits of the law D.A. Treffert (1973) Dying with their rights on P. Fennell (1999) The third way in mental health policy: negative rights, positive rights and the convention United Nations (1991) Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and for the improvement of mental health care T.D. Campbell (1994) Mental health law: institutionalized discrimination D.B. Wexler (1992) Putting mental health into mental health law M. Tansella and P. Williams (1987) The Italian experience and its implications PROCESS D.L. Rosenhan (1973) On being sane in insane places G. Kullgren et al (1996) Practices and attitudes among Swedish psychiatrists regarding the ethics of compulsory treatment J. Monahan et al (1995) Coercion and commitment: understanding involuntary mental hospital admission K.R. Jamison (1995) Flights of the mind P. Bean (1986) Consent and treatment T. Grisso and P.S. Appelbaum (1995) The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study Ill Abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments B.G. Link et al (1999) Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes dangerousness and social distance TRENDS J. Dawson et al (2003) Ambivalence about community treatment orders R.M. Gordon (1993) Out to pasture: a case for the retirement of Canadian mental health legislation G. Richardson (2002) Autonomy, guardianship and mental disorder R. Porter (2004) Is mental illness inevitably stigmatizing? P. Bartlett (2003) The test of compulsion in mental health law: capacity, therapeutic benefit and dangerousness as possible critieria R.P. Bentall (2003) The boundaries of madness NAME INDEX.
Download or read book Mental Health Law written by Peter Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the legal structure of the mental health system, this book explains the legal principles. It places them in the context of their practical application, the realities of patient life, and the complexities of organising care. This edition gives an analysis of the Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and the Draft Mental Health Bill.
