Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.
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Quality mental healthcare requires more than training clinicians. They also need to be supported to implement their knowledge in the therapy room.
The perpetrator of Friday’s terror attack in Auckland spent time in prison for sharing objectionable ISIS material, but under New Zealand’s criminal law he couldn’t be detained for planning an attack.
The interim report of Victoria’s mental health royal commission makes some worthwhile recommendations. But if we want to see broad-reaching system change, the state can’t do it alone.
Asylums were once designed to aid mental recovery – perhaps modern prisons should take note.
A review has suggested giving patients who are detained in hospital the right to appeal decisions about their treatment. Sadly, this may never happen.
Mental health courts work to reduce reoffending, enhance public safety and improve the well-being of individuals with mental illness.
One recent survey found that 43% of academic staff exhibited symptoms of at least a mild mental disorder
Arbitration hearings into the deaths of mentally ill patients has brought to light shocking cruelty and neglect on the part of South African officials.
Recent Queensland reforms – due to take effect in March 2017 – do not include legislative safeguards for a certain group of people with mental illness.
The law should allow greater communication between health professionals, families and carers even if this impacts on patients’ rights of confidentiality.
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Teaching Assistant, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Counselling, School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich
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Lecturer in Health Law & Bioethics, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University
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Professor of Law, New York Law School
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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HRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath