by admin | 15/11/22 | 2022, News, Output, Report
The Mental Health and Justice Project: reflections on strong interdisciplinarity by Gareth Owen This chapter explores opportunities and challenges in interdisciplinary collaborations using the Mental Health and Justice project (MHJ) as a case study. It outlines...
by admin | 13/09/22 | 2022, Insight, Output
Wayne Martin Martin, W., “Respeto a la Voluntad de la Persona,” [Respect for the Will of the Person] (in Spanish), in Bach and Yaksic (eds.), Capacidad Mental, Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos [Mental Capacity, Disability and Human Rights] (Mexico City: Suprema Corte...
by admin | 12/09/22 | 2022, Advance Directives, Output, Workstream 3
“How can we be sure that someone lacks ‘decision-making capacity’?”, writes Tania Gergel in Psyche magazine. Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts. “…[I]t is...
by admin | 02/09/22 | 2022, Event, Legal Capacity, Workstream 1
A one day seminar organised by the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics About this event The concept of supported decision-making is gaining prominence in public policy as a way to enable greater autonomy for people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities. However,...
by admin | 18/07/22 | 2022, Contested Assessment, Output
Nuala Kane, Alex Ruck Keene, Gareth Owen and Scott Kim Front. Psychiatry 13:946234. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.946234 Background: Assessment of capacity for treatment and discharge decisions is common in the general hospital. Liaison psychiatrists are often...
by admin | 13/05/22 | 2022, Advance Directives, News, Output, Workstream 3
On Tuesday 17 May 2022 at 16:00, a BBC Radio 4 documentary will air, looking at Advance Directives, and feature Dr Tania Gergel. Why are people with mental illness committing themselves in advance, when well, to treatment that they know they may want to refuse when...
