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: Supporting the decision-making of mental health service users fulfils
professional, ethical and moral obligations of mental health practitioners. It may also aid …

Background The UK government committed to legislating for Advance Choice
Documents/Advance Statements (ACD/AS) following their recommendation by the …

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 …

New capacity laws have been introduced to many jurisdictions over the last decade. These
laws have substantially changed the way in which mental health social workers and other …

Abstract Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) have been adopted in many jurisdictions
around the world and in most Australian states and territories. They are seen as a less …

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 …

Mental health psychiatric advance directives, advance statements, and similar documents
are designed to convey a person's treatment preferences to their treating clinicians at times …

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 …

Objective: Following the recent widespread reform of mental-health legislation in Australia,
psychiatric advance directives (PADs) have now been incorporated in four jurisdictions. We …