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In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Social law

• Full title: Decisions and Dilemmas
• Subtitle: Working with Mental Health Law
• Author: Jill Peay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• EAN: 9781841133430
• ISBN: 1841133434
• ID: 04849853
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 350 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 235 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. June 2003

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