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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
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"A fool for a client?" Mental illness and the right of self-representation.
29 Sep 2008 
Does the Constitution require a trial court to allow an obviously impaired man to represent himself? This column discusses the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Indiana v. Edwards, which allows states to limit a defendant's right to ...
rec_pub_18832491-a-fool-client-mental-illness-right-self-representation.htm
Restraint and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
29 Sep 2008 In their latest article on Mental Capacity Act 2005 and district nurse practice, Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah discuss the requirements for the lawful use of restraint and examine when an action may lead to a deprivation of liberty under the ...
rec_pub_19057474-restraint-mental-capacity-act-2005.htm
Variable judgments of decisional capacity in cognitively impaired research subjects.
29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: To compare assessments of the decisional capacity of cognitively impaired patients by research assistants (RAs) and by family caregiver/proxies and to determine whether either or both groups judge capacity differently depending on the ...
rec_pub_19054202-variable-judgments-decisional-capacity-cognitively-impaired-research.htm
The mental capacity act 2: patient advocacy and ethics.
29 Sep 2008 This is the second of a two-part unit on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Part 1 explored the concept and definition of mental capacity, advance treatment decisions, independent mental capacity advocates and the act's code of practice. This part ...
rec_pub_19044123-the-mental-capacity-act-2-patient-advocacy-ethics.htm
The Mental Capacity Act 1: advance decisions.
29 Sep 2008 This is the first of a two-part unit on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Part 1 outlines the act's key principles and implications. Healthcare professionals' responsibilities are examined in relation to advance ...
rec_pub_18980078-the-mental-capacity-act-1-advance-decisions.htm
29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Many patients who suffer from an acute stroke, will need long-term nursing home care. We are poorly informed about the demographic and clinical characteristics and about the care problems and received care of these ...
rec_pub_18975844-stroke-patients-need-long-term-nursing-home-care-problems-care-receive.htm
29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Informed consent is regarded as a contract between autonomous and equal parties and requires the elements of information disclosure, understanding, voluntariness and consent. The validity of informed consent for critically ill patients ...
rec_pub_18827109-i-don-t-like-s-tricking-people-acute-informed-consent-participation.htm
Personality disorder and competence to refuse treatment.
29 Sep 2008 The traditional view that having a personality disorder, unlike other mental disorders, is not usually reason enough to consider a person incompetent to make healthcare decisions is challenged. The example of a case in which a woman was treated for ...
rec_pub_18827100-personality-disorder-competence-refuse-treatment.htm
25 Sep 2008 
rec_pub_18820610-unintentional-oversight.htm
21 Sep 2008 Despite the application of the MacCAT-CA to juveniles, questions been raised regarding the appropriateness of this tool for adolescents. The current study tested for age-related measurement bias using data from the MacArthur Juvenile Adjudicative ...
rec_pub_18810614-the-use-maccat-ca-adolescents-item-response-theory-investigation-age.htm
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