Book contents
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction A “Paradigm Shift” in Mental Health Care
- 1 The Alchemy of Agency: Reflections on Supported Decision-Making, the Right to Health and Health Systems as Democratic Institutions
- 2 Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3 Reparation for Psychiatric Violence: A Call to Justice
- 4 Divergent Human Rights Approaches to Capacity and Consent
- 5 From Pipe Dream to Reality: A Practical Legal Approach Towards the Global Abolition of Psychiatric Coercion
- 6 The ‘Fusion Law’ Proposals and the CRPD
- 7 Contextualising Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making in the Global South Experiences: of Homeless Women with Mental Health Issues from Chennai, India
- 8 The Potential of the Legal Capacity Law Reform in Peru to Transform Mental Health Provision
- 9 Advancing Disability Equality Through Supported Decision-Making: The CRPD and the Canadian Constitution
- 10 Decisional Autonomy and India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: A Comment on Emerging Jurisprudence
- 11 Towards Resolving Damaging Uncertainties: Progress in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
- 12 ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’: Recent Developments in Mental Health Law Reform in Zambia and Ghana
- 13 Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity in Kenya
- 14 Seher’s “Circle of Care” Model in Advancing Supported Decision Making in India
- 15 The Swedish Personal Ombudsman: Support in Decision-Making and Accessing Human Rights
- 16 Strategies to Achieve a Rights-Based Approach through WHO QualityRights
- 17 The Clubhouse Model: A Framework for Naturally Occurring Supported Decision Making
- 18 Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
- 19 Psychiatric Advance Directives and Supported Decision-Making: Preliminary Developments and Pilot Studies in California
- 20 Community-Based Mental Health Care Delivery with Partners In Health: A Framework for Putting the CRPD into Practice
- 21 Lived Experience Perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – Conceptualising the Realities
- 22 In the Pursuit of Justice: Advocacy by and for Hyper-marginalized People with Psychosocial Disabilities through the Law and Beyond
- 23 The Danish Experience of Transforming Decision-Making Models
- 24 The Use of Patient Advocates in Supporting People with Psychosocial Disabilities
- 25 Users’ Involvement in Decision-Making: Lessons from Primary Research in India and Japan
- 26 Involvement of People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Conditions in Decision-Making to Improve Care in Rural Ethiopia
- References
2 - Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2021
Book contents
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction A “Paradigm Shift” in Mental Health Care
- 1 The Alchemy of Agency: Reflections on Supported Decision-Making, the Right to Health and Health Systems as Democratic Institutions
- 2 Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3 Reparation for Psychiatric Violence: A Call to Justice
- 4 Divergent Human Rights Approaches to Capacity and Consent
- 5 From Pipe Dream to Reality: A Practical Legal Approach Towards the Global Abolition of Psychiatric Coercion
- 6 The ‘Fusion Law’ Proposals and the CRPD
- 7 Contextualising Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making in the Global South Experiences: of Homeless Women with Mental Health Issues from Chennai, India
- 8 The Potential of the Legal Capacity Law Reform in Peru to Transform Mental Health Provision
- 9 Advancing Disability Equality Through Supported Decision-Making: The CRPD and the Canadian Constitution
- 10 Decisional Autonomy and India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: A Comment on Emerging Jurisprudence
- 11 Towards Resolving Damaging Uncertainties: Progress in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
- 12 ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’: Recent Developments in Mental Health Law Reform in Zambia and Ghana
- 13 Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity in Kenya
- 14 Seher’s “Circle of Care” Model in Advancing Supported Decision Making in India
- 15 The Swedish Personal Ombudsman: Support in Decision-Making and Accessing Human Rights
- 16 Strategies to Achieve a Rights-Based Approach through WHO QualityRights
- 17 The Clubhouse Model: A Framework for Naturally Occurring Supported Decision Making
- 18 Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
- 19 Psychiatric Advance Directives and Supported Decision-Making: Preliminary Developments and Pilot Studies in California
- 20 Community-Based Mental Health Care Delivery with Partners In Health: A Framework for Putting the CRPD into Practice
- 21 Lived Experience Perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – Conceptualising the Realities
- 22 In the Pursuit of Justice: Advocacy by and for Hyper-marginalized People with Psychosocial Disabilities through the Law and Beyond
- 23 The Danish Experience of Transforming Decision-Making Models
- 24 The Use of Patient Advocates in Supporting People with Psychosocial Disabilities
- 25 Users’ Involvement in Decision-Making: Lessons from Primary Research in India and Japan
- 26 Involvement of People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Conditions in Decision-Making to Improve Care in Rural Ethiopia
- References
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequities for people with psychosocial disabilities producing in its wake a serious obstacle for mental health policymakers and advocates committed to upholding Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To overcome this obstacle, stakeholders must resist a common tendency in international mental health policymaking: to over-invest in interventions that arise from a biomedical conception of mental illness. Instead, the pandemic is an opportunity to look beyond the dominant biomedical framework in international mental health care – which has a record of undermining Article 12 principles like legal capacity, autonomy, and self-determination – toward one based on human rights. This shift in positionality will serve to uphold Article 12 and help fulfill the spectrum of human rights for people with psychosocial disabilities.
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