Compulsory treatment and patient responsibility

Title: Compulsory treatment and patient responsibility
Creator: Arya, Dinesh
Relation: Australasian Psychiatry Vol. 20, Issue 6, p. 472-477
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856212460284
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Objective: Current legislative provisions for compulsory treatment of people with mental illness allow decisions to treat people under compulsion to be made on the basis of presence of a mental illness or mental disorder without consideration of whether the patient has the capacity to make decisions that are in his/her best interest. Issues of autonomy, equity, justice and beneficence in relation to treatment of people with mental illness are explored to determine decision-making rules that should be applied for compulsory mental health treatment. Conclusions: It is proposed that assessment of the capacity of the individual to make decisions in his/her best interest, rather than presence of diagnosable mental illness, should be the key consideration for compulsory mental health treatment.
Subject: capacity; compulsory; legislation; Mental Health Act; treatment
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1305809
Identifier: uon:21105
Identifier: ISSN:1039-8562
Language: eng
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