Members of the Mental Health and Justice research project gathered across the workstreams, alongside participants of the Service User Advisory Group (SUAG) the Advisory Board and Bethlem Gallery, for the MHJ Colloquium 2019. Convening at the Wellcome Trust in London on 16 September, each workstream presented the developments and future areas of research to the
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Mental Health and Justice colloquium 2019
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Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales
Mental Health and Justice Workstream 3, ‘Advance Directives’, have published a new paper in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 64, May–June 2019. Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales is a multidisciplinary analysis of advance decision making in mental health influenced the UK Government review of the Mental Health
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A Mental Health Act Fit for Tomorrow
An Agenda for Reform Mental Health Alliance June 2017 “The Mental Health Act is not fit for purpose. We urgently call for a review of the Act, so that together we can protect the rights and improve care for some of the most vulnerable people in the health system.” Link
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Fluctuating capacity and advance decision-making in Bipolar Affective Disorder — Self-binding directives and self-determination
For people with Bipolar Affective Disorder, a self-binding (advance) directive (SBD), by which they commit themselves to treatment during future episodes of mania, even if unwilling, can seem the most rational way to deal with an imperfect predicament. Knowing that mania will almost certainly cause enormous damage to themselves, their preferred solution may well be
