Objective: 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 …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) enable users of mental health services to
express their treatment preferences for future mental health crises. PAD completion rates …

Background Joint Crisis Plans (JCP) and crisis cards (CC) are both instruments designed to
improve the management of future psychiatric crisis situations, but they differ, for example, in …

This paper argues that existing English and Welsh mental health legislation (The Mental
Health Act 1983 (MHA)) should be changed to make provision for advance decision-making …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Advance care planning (ACP) in mental
health is a useful tool to avoid human rights violations in mental health settings. However …

Advance Statements enable mental health patients to have their preferences considered in
treatment decisions in the event of losing capacity, but their uptake is poor. This is for …

Seclusion is used in forensic and general mental health settings to protect a person or
others from harm. However, seclusion can result in trauma‐related harm and re …

Accessible Summary What Is Known on the Subject? Australia is a commonwealth of
federated states and territories with each having unique mental health legislation. Victoria …

Advance statements represent a promising but relatively unexplored means to empower
young people with first-episode psychosis to actively participate in their own mental health …

Embedded into Victoria's mental health legislation as part of the 2014 Mental Health Act
suite of reforms, advance statements are designed to convey an individuals' preferences for …