Mental health and mental capacity law: Some mutual concerns for social work practice

Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-105

  Rapaport, Joan ^a   Manthorpe, Jill ^a   Stanley, Nicky ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Advance decision making; Deprivation of liberty; Mental Capacity Act 2005; Mental Health Act 2007; Mental health social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149171331     PISSN: 09503153     EISSN: 17424909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09503150902807631     Document Type: Article

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