A clinician's brief guide to children's mental health law / Sarah Huline-Dickens.
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TextPublisher: London : RCPsych Publications, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 132 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781108626866 (ebook)
- 344.41044 23
- KD3412 .H85 2016
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A practical guide for clinicians working with children and young people under the age of eighteen that focuses on essential elements of children's mental health law, a complex area that is often poorly understood.
1. Introducing child mental health and the law -- 2. The rights of the child -- 3. The Children Act 1989 and 2004 amendments -- 4. Consent to treatment -- 5. Confidentiality -- 6. The Mental Health Act -- 7. The Mental Capacity Act -- 8. Juvenile justice -- References -- Index.
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