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PSY5 Forensic Ethics and Law
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1I'm pretty sure any questions about this will be common sense but let's have a refresher covering
- What [blank_start]rights[blank_end] do / should persons with mental illness have?
- In what circumstances should mentally ill persons be [blank_start]required[blank_end] to receive treatment?
Code of Health and Disability Consumer Code of Rights:
Relevant right - Right [blank_start]7[blank_end]: Right to make an informed [blank_start]choice[blank_end] and give informed consent.
If the person is '[blank_start]competent[blank_end]' they have a right to refuse treatment.
Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992:
[blank_start]Application[blank_end] for assessment for Compulsory Treatment Order, followed by a physician [blank_start]assesment[blank_end], and a [blank_start]Court[blank_end] hearing:
- Judge must decide if suffering “mental disorder*’ &
- if compulsory treatment is ‘[blank_start]necessary[blank_end]’
Under Section [blank_start]4[blank_end]: Can’t invoke process by reason only of a person’s:
(a) political, religious or cultural [blank_start]beliefs[blank_end];
(b) [blank_start]sexual[blank_end] preferences;
(c) [blank_start]criminal[blank_end] or delinquent behaviour;
(d) substance [blank_start]abuse[blank_end];
(e) intellectual [blank_start]disability[blank_end]
*'Mental disorder’ means an [blank_start]abnormal state of mind[blank_end] of such a degree that it -
(a) Poses a serious [blank_start]danger[blank_end] to the health or safety of that person or of [blank_start]others[blank_end];
or
(b) Seriously diminishes the capacity of that person to take care of [blank_start]himself or herself[blank_end].
Compulsory ‘treatment’ for mental disorder may include:
- Treatment to alleviate [blank_start]symptoms[blank_end] or prevent deterioration;
- Diagnostic tests;
- Nursing care & rehabilitation;
- Surgery following [blank_start]self[blank_end]-harm/ingestion of objects;
- Secure care;
- Seclusion and restraint .. aided by [blank_start]police[blank_end] if needed- Arights
- Brequired
- C7
- Dchoice
- Ecompetent
- FApplication
- Gassesment
- Hcourt
- Inecessary
- J4
- Kbeliefs
- Lsexual
- Mcriminal
- Nabuse
- Odisability
- Pabnormal state of mind
- Qdanger
- Rothers
- Sthemselves
- Tsymptoms
- Uself
- Vpolice
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