Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the
concept of people having 'rights' that social workers need to respect and advocate for …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are written documents or oral statements that allow
adults with decisionmaking capacity to declare their treatment preferences and/or to …

OBJECTIVES: The Mental Health Act 2001 (MHA 2001) was implemented in November
2006. Since that time, there has been considerable research into its impact, including the …

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 …

The advance directive is a statement of an individual's preference for future treatment. The
concept initially evolved in the context of end-of-life treatment decision making …

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly as
interpreted in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities General Comment …

This article critically examines the proposed reforms to Irish mental health law the Mental
Health Act 2001 (2001 Act). The article will provide background to the 2001 Act and the …

SUESS SCHWEND, Amets et al. Planificación Anticipada de Decisiones en Salud Mental:
modelos, utilidades y propuestas de aplicación. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq.[online]. 2016 …

The right to health has been somewhat neglected in discussions about human rights at both
national and international levels. States are often reluctant to implement socio-economic …

Papers published in conjunction with co-authors were done so with the full knowledge of
Professor Brendan Kelly. I took a lead role in all the published papers, and I had the primary …