Restrictive environments: the challenge of implementing of Brunei's 2014 Mental Health Order

In 2014, Brunei implemented the Mental Health Order, which replaced the 1929 Lunacy Act. This new legislation was designed to improve the treatment of mental disorders and to protect the rights and welfare of people with mental disorders. This short report describes the experience and challenge of i...

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Autor principal: Ho, Hilda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Psychiatry under Restrictive Conditions
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6277950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.19
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description In 2014, Brunei implemented the Mental Health Order, which replaced the 1929 Lunacy Act. This new legislation was designed to improve the treatment of mental disorders and to protect the rights and welfare of people with mental disorders. This short report describes the experience and challenge of implementing the new legislation, with a particular focus on the use of involuntary treatment and the restrictions imposed on people with mental disorders despite the new legislative framework.
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spelling pubmed-62779502018-12-06 Restrictive environments: the challenge of implementing of Brunei's 2014 Mental Health Order Ho, Hilda BJPsych Int Psychiatry under Restrictive Conditions In 2014, Brunei implemented the Mental Health Order, which replaced the 1929 Lunacy Act. This new legislation was designed to improve the treatment of mental disorders and to protect the rights and welfare of people with mental disorders. This short report describes the experience and challenge of implementing the new legislation, with a particular focus on the use of involuntary treatment and the restrictions imposed on people with mental disorders despite the new legislative framework. Cambridge University Press 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6277950/ /pubmed/30524123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.19 Text en © The Author 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
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title Restrictive environments: the challenge of implementing of Brunei's 2014 Mental Health Order
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title_short Restrictive environments: the challenge of implementing of Brunei's 2014 Mental Health Order
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6277950/
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