This article reviews the literature on advance statements, including current mental health law
and guidance in England and Wales, ethical and practical advantages, disadvantages and …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal tools that allow competent individuals to
declare preferences for future mental health treatment when they may not be capable of …

Statutes on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent individuals to document
instructions for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. PADs …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) statutes presume competence to complete these
documents, but the range and dimensions of decisional competence among people who …

Abstract Background Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are used to document a
person's treatment preferences for a future mental health crisis. Peer support specialists …

In contemporary guardianship systems, it is likely that most court-appointed guardians will
eventually be called upon either to make or to assist the ward to make health care decisions …

Therapeutic jurisprudence (" TJ") is growing in prominence as a reappraisal of law and the
legal process. It seeks to reframe law by offering a prism through which it can be viewed as a …

Public health emergencies and disasters are often defined by their impacts on human
morbidity and mortality.'The 2009/2010 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic has led to millions of …

Advance Directives (AD) are the legal right of every adult individual, who has the mental
capacity to decide at the time of making AD, irrespective of one's previous mental illness. AD …

Civil Commitment in the Treatment of Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive view on
the use of involuntary hospitalization in the treatment of patients with anorexia and other …