Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents that allow users of mental
health services to express their preferences for treatment in future mental health crises. To …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) enable users of mental health services to
express their treatment preferences for future mental health crises. PAD completion rates …

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the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Background Despite increasing calls for shared decision making (SDM), the precise
mechanisms for its attainment are unclear. Sharing decisions in mental health care may be …

Background Self-binding directives instruct clinicians to overrule treatment refusal during
future severe episodes of illness. These directives are promoted as having the potential to …

Purpose Recent legislation and guidance in England emphasises the importance of service
user choice in care planning. However, it is not obvious how best to facilitate choices in care …

Abstract Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) are documents that allow users with severe
and chronic mental illnesses to notify their treatment preferences for future crisis relapses …

Abstract 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 …

Background Advance decision making (ADM) in mental health is supported by stakeholders
but faces significant barriers. These must be overcome, not least to support the UK …

Purpose Self-binding directives (SBDs) are a special type of psychiatric advance directive in
which mental health service users can consent in advance to involuntary hospital admission …