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

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 …

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 …

Mental health policy and practice across Europe Page 1 European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies Series Mental health policy and practice across Europe Martin Knapp …

Background Despite increasing calls for shared decision making (SDM), the precise
mechanisms for its attainment are unclear. Sharing decisions in mental health care may be …

Background Involving users/carers in mental health care-planning is central to international
policy initiatives yet users frequently report feeling excluded from the care planning process …

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

Purpose Recent legislation and guidance in England emphasises the importance of service
user choice in care planning. However, it is not obvious how best to facilitate choices in care …

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 Since the 1990s, New Zealand mental health policy has shifted from a focus on the
management of symptoms and risk to the recovery of psychological, social, cultural, and …