Vulnerable patients going to court: a psychiatrist's guide to special measures

There have been significant changes to how vulnerable people are treated in the court system, including the introduction of special measures to support people both as witness and as accused. This paper summarises the use of special measures and their application to people with mental health diagnose...

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Autores principales: Cooper, Penny, Grace, Janet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
Materias:
Current Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.051508
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spelling pubmed-49677842016-08-10 Vulnerable patients going to court: a psychiatrist's guide to special measures Cooper, Penny Grace, Janet BJPsych Bull Current Practice There have been significant changes to how vulnerable people are treated in the court system, including the introduction of special measures to support people both as witness and as accused. This paper summarises the use of special measures and their application to people with mental health diagnoses or cognitive impairment. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4967784/ /pubmed/27512594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.051508 Text en © 2016 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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