The article traces the history of Victorian mental health legislation, from the opening of the first asylum in 1848, to the agitation for reform in the late 1970s which led to the passage of the current Act. Law reform is enhanced by clear identification of the values that underpin our ...
26]. Compared with physical health consequences, mental illnesses might be less visible or tangible to the victims themselves and society. Mental health issues can manifest in a range of
It’s an endeavour jurisdictions including Victoria, Australia and Ireland have used recently to acknowledge and address the failures of their own mental health legislation. The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions are currently reviewing the act, which has come under ...
The Mental Health Review Board of Victoria, which conducts reviews of involuntary treatment decisions, discharged Mr Fisher from the community treatment order on 12 October 2006 and he was subsequently given injections of antipsychotic drugs by his general practitioner. He continued to keep appointments...
“I want to make sure, with every inch of me, that everybody is afforded the same path out of darkness that I was able to find,” Holland said in an interview about his own mental-health experience. “Where we’re having really difficult conversations is: What do we do when ...
This chapter starts by exploring the differences between the broader disability and mental health sectors, including an outline of their historically separate development, as a way of providing the ‘lens’ through which many of the subsequent challenges
state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and ...
Current Australian mental health legislation appears to focus on the process of imposing CTOs, with little accountability for what workers and patients do during the CTO period. Understanding how each party constructs the CTO process might offer a better understanding of how to manage the tensions ...
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University, Victoria, Australia Lachlan Kent Contributions XL: conceptualization; formal analysis; methodology; project administration; visualization; writing–original draft; writing–reviewing and editing. CR: data curation; formal analysis; methodology; project ...
作者: C Victoria 摘要: To address the considerable challenges faced by those caring for a person with a psychiatric disability, this report follows a study into access to Carer Payment and Carer Allowance by carers of a person with a mental illness. Invisible Care provides detailed analysis of ...