| Description |
xv, 427 pages ; 26 cm |
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The law and public policy |
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Law and public policy.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. A Continuum of Intrusiveness -- Ch. 3. Psychotherapy -- Ch. 4. Behavior Therapy -- Ch. 5. Psychotropic Medication -- Ch. 6. Electroconvulsive Therapy -- Ch. 7. Electronic Stimulation of the Brain -- Ch. 8. Psychosurgery -- Ch. 9. The Constitution and Other Sources of Legal Limitation on Governmentally Imposed Therapy -- Ch. 10. The First Amendment and Mental Health Treatment: Constitutional Protection Against Interference With Mental Processes -- Ch. 11. Substantive Due Process and Mental Health Treatment: Constitutional Protection for Bodily Integrity, Mental Privacy, and Individual Autonomy -- Ch. 12. Treatment as Punishment: Eighth Amendment Limits on Mental Health Interventions -- Ch. 13. Religion-Based Refusal of Treatment: Constitutional Protection for the Free Exercise of Religion -- Ch. 14. Are Mental Patients Difference?: Equal Protection Limits on Involuntary Treatment |
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Ch. 15. Scrutinizing the Government's Interest in Involuntary Treatment -- Ch. 16. Scrutiny of the Means Used to Accomplish Governmental Interests -- Ch. 17. A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis of the Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment -- Ch. 18. Waiver of the Right to Refuse Treatment: The Requirement of Informed Consent -- Ch. 19. Procedural Due Process and Involuntary Therapy: The Right to a Hearing -- Ch. 20. The Future of the Right to Refuse Treatment |
| Summary |
"The Right to Refuse Treatment" [analyzes] the legal issues raised by involuntary treatment. It provides a systematic analysis of the mental health treatment techniques and the constitutional issues implicated by involuntary treatment. The 1st part of the book constructs a continuum of the intrusiveness along which the various treatment techniques--psychotherapy, behavior therapy, psychotropic medication, electroconvulsive therapy, electronic stimulation of the brain, and psychosurgery--may be ranked. In Part II, the author discusses the constitutional and other legal limitations on governmentally imposed, involuntary mental health and correctional treatment including statutory, regulatory, and international and tort law limits. The governmental interests that might justify involuntary treatment are analyzed, and 2 . . . limitations on the means to achieve these interests are examined: the therapeutic appropriateness principle and the least restrictive alternative principle. In Part III, the author analyzes issues related to the evaluation and implementation of the right to refuse mental health treatment |
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The issues discussed in this book are [related to] psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychophamacology, bioethics and the law. Moreover, they reflect the traditionally different perspectives of the principal professional disciplines involved--law, psychiatry, and psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Mental health laws -- United States.
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Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States.
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| LC no. |
96042913 //r98 |
| ISBN |
1557983690 |
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