2017 research

Paradigm shifts or mirages?

The Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the compliance of United Kingdom with the CRPD makes a very substantial number of hard-hitting, difficult...

Hard Capacity Cases - An English Perspective and a Plea for Help

13 Sep, 17 | 2017, Contested Assessment, Output

Alex Ruck Keene 7th August 2017

Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

14 Jun, 17 | 2017, Contested Assessment, Output

Is mental capacity in the eye of the beholder? The law, at least in England and Wales, divides adults [1] into those...

Fluctuating capacity and advanced decision making. Gergel, T., Owen, G. The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry special edition on ‘Mental capacities and legal responsibilities’ 40 (2015). 92-101.

14 Jun, 17 | 2017, Advance Directives, Output

For people with Bipolar Affective Disorder, a self-binding (advance) directive (SBD), by which they commit themselves...

Reframing a model – the benefits and challenges of service user involvement in mental health research, first-authored with Thomas Kabir in Bluhm, R (ed.) Knowing and Acting in Medicine (Rowman and Littlefield 2017).

29 Jan, 17 | 2017, Advance Directives, Output