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Author Harbour, Anthony.

Title Children with mental disorder and the law : a guide to law and practice / Anthony Harbour
Published London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents Human rights -- The Children Act -- Secure accommodation -- The Mental Health Act : professionals, relatives, safeguards and mental disorder -- The Mental Health Act : assessment, detention, treatment, discharge and other orders -- Criminal justice -- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- Service provision and entitlement -- The role and function of the approved social worker/approved mental health professional -- The diagnosis and management of complex mental illness in young people -- Confidentiality -- Young people, consent, refusal and psychiatric treatment
Summary Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With rapid social developments, it can be difficult for carers and practitioners to keep track of the law in this area. This book provides a guide to the law relating to mental health care for children and young people, their rights and entitlement to service, and discusses important issues in clinical and social care practice such as parental responsibility, Gillick competency and capacity, emergency int
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Mentally ill children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain
Mental health laws -- Great Britain
Children.
Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence
Adolescent
Child
Child Welfare -- legislation & jurisprudence
Disabled Children -- legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Competency -- legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
Patient Rights -- legislation & jurisprudence
children (people by age group)
Mental Health Law.
Social Work.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- Child & Adolescent.
Children
Mental health laws
Mentally ill children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007047776
ISBN 9781846428005
1846428009
1281782270
9781281782274
9786611782276
6611782273