Abstract
Book abstract: The 2nd edition of this detailed practitioner text remains a straightforward account of the legal issues relevant to Scottish psychiatric practice. It explains how the Scottish legal system deals with mental health issues, and outlines psychiatric care systems; now fully updated to include developments since implementation of the Mental Health (Care Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. Essential new areas covered include multi-disciplinary input, inclusion of the Code of Practice and important new research findings. The expert authors also provide increased detail on the effectiveness of Tribunals. Chapter 3 on Criminology addresses the importance of taking a wider approach to our understanding of the construction of labels such as mental diorder and offender and the benefit in applying approaches incorporating this.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Mental Health and Scots Law in Practice |
| Publisher | Sweet & Maxwell |
| Edition | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780414017634 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- mental health
- offenders
- crimnology
- forensic psychology