Mental health, mental capacity, ethics, and the law in the context of COVID-19 (coronavirus).
Int J Law Psychiatry
; 73: 101632, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-808407
ABSTRACT
The emergence of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020 presented new and urgent challenges to mental health services and legislators around the world. This special issue of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry explores mental health law, mental capacity law, and medical and legal ethics in the context of COVID-19. Papers are drawn from India, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, and the United States. Together, these articles demonstrate the complexity of psychiatric and legal issues prompted by COVID-19 in terms of providing mental health care, protecting rights, exercising decision-making capacity, and a range of other topics. While further work is needed in many of these areas, these papers provide a strong framework for addressing key issues and meeting the challenges that COVID-19 and, possibly, other outbreaks are likely to present in the future.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mental Health
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Mental Competency
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Commitment of Mentally Ill
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COVID-19
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Human Rights
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Mental Disorders
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Mental Health Services
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Int J Law Psychiatry
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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