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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law by Jill Peay
In the field of mental health lawwe entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter do they reach the same or similar decisions and most critically how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book through its narrative format aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.show more