Compulsory treatment: Rights, reforms and the role of realism

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 895-898

  Anand, Sumit ^a   Pennington Smith, Paul A ^b  

^a McLean High School   (United States)

^b Independent Psychiatric Nurse   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ANOSOGNOSIA; AUSTRALIA; CIVIL RIGHTS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPULSION; DECISION MAKING; DELUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; JURISPRUDENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; NOTE; PATERNALISM; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIETY; STANDARD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

COERCION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84884857472     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867413495316     Document Type: Note

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