Abstract Background Since Goffman's seminal work on psychiatric institutions,
deinstitutionalization has become a leading term in the psychiatric debate. It described the …

Background. Assessment of capacity plays a pivotal role in determining when decisions
need to be made on behalf of an individual. It therefore has major clinical management …

Outpatient commitment, although often viewed as merely an extension of inpatient
commitment, is only one of a growing array of legal tools used to mandate treatment …

Suicide was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012! Suicide: The
Philosophical Dimensions is a provocative and comprehensive investigation of the main …

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 …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that permit competent adults to
make choices in the present about their future psychiatric treatment if they lose their decision …

People with disabilities continue to experience a disproportionately high level of state
intervention in their private lives. Many disabled people's organisations have long sought to …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent persons to request or refuse specific
types of treatment and designate a proxy decisionmaker in advance of a mental health crisis …

Diagnostic criteriaMental disorder'is taken to meanany disability or disorder of mind or brain,
whether permanent or temporary, which results in an impairment or disturbance of mental …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are an emerging method for adults with serious and
persistent mental illness to document treatment preferences in advance of periods of …