Objective: Discussions of capacity to consent in mental health care usually revolve around
capacity to consent to treatment. This paper instead explores the issue of capacity to consent …

Mental health psychiatric advance directives, advance statements, and similar documents
are designed to convey a person's treatment preferences to their treating clinicians at times …

Advocacy has received less attention in social work research than other aspects of social
work practice. This paper draws attention to two tensions in social work advocacy; between …

Professor Bernadette McSherry was one of the first scholars to advocate for specialist mental
health complaints agencies to regulate mental health services. In Victoria, the Mental Health …

Despite aims to create a progressive inter-institutional dialogue about human rights, the
Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities (Vic)(Charter) has largely fallen flat. This …

Abstract In introducing the Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill of 2022 into Parliament in
Victoria, Australia, the state government claimed that the new legislation “delivers on the …

Objective: To consider whether research into “motivational postures” can assist the Victorian
Government and the forthcoming Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission to regulate and …

Mental health systems are built on imperfect foundations. Rather than reflect the “dark old
days” of psychiatry, mental health systems, still, commit wide‐spread breaches of mental …

본 연구의 목적은 절차보조사업에 참여한 경험을 탐색하여 강제적 치료에 대한 정신장애인
권익옹호 서비스인 절차보조사업의 성과 및 한계를 알아보는 데 있다. 절차보조사업에 참여한 …

The activist notion,'nothing about us, without us', is a cornerstone critique of the narrow,
individualising, and pathologising ideas about distress that are contained within biomedical …