Mental health legislation in Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe

The article provides a brief overview of the legislation governing involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals in Luxembourg. The legislation was completely overhauled in 2009 and several human rights principles are enshrined into it. Emphasis is placed on voluntary, community-based treatment, a...

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Autores principales: Malmendier-Muehlschlegel, Anja, Power, Niamh Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36287748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.55
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description The article provides a brief overview of the legislation governing involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals in Luxembourg. The legislation was completely overhauled in 2009 and several human rights principles are enshrined into it. Emphasis is placed on voluntary, community-based treatment, and where compulsory treatment is required, it uses the least restrictive treatment option. Mentally ill offenders are dealt with through separate specialist legislation. Young people under the age of 18 are often detained using family law.
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spelling pubmed-95406502022-10-24 Mental health legislation in Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe Malmendier-Muehlschlegel, Anja Power, Niamh Catherine BJPsych Int Mental Health Law Profile The article provides a brief overview of the legislation governing involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals in Luxembourg. The legislation was completely overhauled in 2009 and several human rights principles are enshrined into it. Emphasis is placed on voluntary, community-based treatment, and where compulsory treatment is required, it uses the least restrictive treatment option. Mentally ill offenders are dealt with through separate specialist legislation. Young people under the age of 18 are often detained using family law. Cambridge University Press 2022-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9540650/ /pubmed/36287748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.55 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is included and the original work is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use.
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