Australian mental health tribunals-'Space' for rights, protection, treatment and governance?

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Carney, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access to treatment; Consumer perspectives; Governance; Involuntary orders; Mental health tribunals

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LANGUAGE; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH TRIBUNAL; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

AUSTRALIA; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84855341555     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: 18736386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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