… preferences to treatment providers (1). Mental health advance directives specify treatment
preferences for times when a consumer of mental health services has a mental health crisis …

… the place of advance directives in mental health care. … advance directives in mental health
care.A total of 473 responded. Results In all, 28% of psychiatrists thought advance directives …

… A psychiatric advance directive is a legal document that allows a patient … mental health
treatment in the event of an incapacitating psychiatric crisis by documenting advance instructions …

… advance directives. Most people made moderately stable decisions when using scenario- and
treatment-specific directives, … These findings suggest that advance directives can be relied …

… Later in this chapter the influence of advance directives in physical health care on the
development of advance directives in mental health is reviewed, along with ways in which they …

… Psychiatric advance directives allow competent persons to … leave advance instructions for
future mental health treatment or to appoint a surrogate decision maker to act as a health care …

… permit some mental health decisions to be made in general health care advance directives.
… authorize individuals to execute an advanced directive for health care implicitly authorize the …

… advance directive. Therefore, advance directives with instructions for mental health care
are not called psychiatric advance directives in Virginia, although for convenience we refer …

… Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents that allow users of mental health
services to express their preferences for treatment in future mental health crises. To increase the …

… in the formal involvement of advance directives in mental health services. It will do this by
first reporting the varieties of advance directives and their terminology currently described in …