Background: A growing gap has emerged between people with mental illness and health
care professionals, which in recent years has been successfully closed through the adoption …

Background Determining the mental capacity of psychiatric patients for making healthcare
related decisions is crucial in clinical practice. This meta-review of review articles …

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 …

The relationship between mental health and human rights is complex and bidirectional.
Global mental health movements have been emphasizing the promotion of human rights in …

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has generated new ideas
and standards in healthcare and disability law and policy. In the mental health context, the …

There have been important recent developments in law, research, policy and practice
relating to supporting people with decision-making impairments, in particular when a …

In the long history of human rights advocacy in psychiatry, the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) sets an important balancing point between the right to …

In this article I aim to identify the nature of poverty discrimination, its judicial treatment and
possible redressal within the discourse of discrimination law. The article delineates a key …

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

The balance between public law, private law and civil society has long attracted interest. As
state or public functions have contracted in recent decades, much recent scholarly attention …