BackgroundService user (patient) involvement in care planning is a principle enshrined by
mental health policy yet often attracts criticism from patients and carers in practice. AimsTo …

Advance statements documenting mental health service consumers' preferences for
treatment during a future mental health crisis or period of incapacity have gained currency in …

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized
individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Background An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for
treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives allow patients with severe mental illness to
document their preferences for particular medications. This study investigated the role of …

Abstract Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) are documents that allow users with severe
and chronic mental illnesses to notify their treatment preferences for future crisis relapses …

Abstract For people with Bipolar Affective Disorder, a self-binding (advance) directive (SBD),
by which they commit themselves to treatment during future episodes of mania, even if …

Despite advocacy and demand for psychiatric advance directives (PADs), uptake and
implementation in clinical practice is low. We examine why PAD implementation has been …

Background: The idea that people with severe mental illness should be able to plan in
advance for periods of illness as a means of enhancing autonomy has been long debated …