The application of mental health legislation in younger children

We review a case history of a young child who was admitted to an in-patient mental health unit due to extremely challenging behaviour and review the legal issues that had to be considered in ensuring that there was appropriate legal authority for the child's admission and treatment. In this par...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Victoria, Chipchase, Barry, Rippon, Lisa, McArdle, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26755991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.048959
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description We review a case history of a young child who was admitted to an in-patient mental health unit due to extremely challenging behaviour and review the legal issues that had to be considered in ensuring that there was appropriate legal authority for the child's admission and treatment. In this particular case, the patient was detained for assessment under section 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This case demonstrates that all clinicians working in this area require a good understanding of the law in relation to treatment of children with mental disorder, which is extremely complex.
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spelling pubmed-47062102016-01-11 The application of mental health legislation in younger children Thomas, Victoria Chipchase, Barry Rippon, Lisa McArdle, Paul BJPsych Bull Special Articles We review a case history of a young child who was admitted to an in-patient mental health unit due to extremely challenging behaviour and review the legal issues that had to be considered in ensuring that there was appropriate legal authority for the child's admission and treatment. In this particular case, the patient was detained for assessment under section 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This case demonstrates that all clinicians working in this area require a good understanding of the law in relation to treatment of children with mental disorder, which is extremely complex. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4706210/ /pubmed/26755991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.048959 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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