Children with Mental Disorder and the Law

A Guide to Law and Practice

Anthony Harbour

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781846428005
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Labour & Employment Law
• Index: Law

Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With rapid social developments, it can be difficult for carers and practitioners to keep track of the law in this area.

This book provides a guide to the law relating to mental health care for children and young people, their rights and entitlement to service, and discusses important issues in clinical and social care practice such as parental responsibility, Gillick competency and capacity, emergency intervention and detention, assessment of mental illness and confidentiality in practice. A chapter written by Mary Mitchell considers the diagnosis and management of complex mental illness in young people, and a concluding chapter discusses changes in the law.

Jargon-free and accessibly written, this is an invaluable guide for professionals working in child and adolescent health and social care, social workers, youth workers, social welfare policy makers, medical professionals, teachers, educational professionals and students, as well as advocates for children and young people.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Children with Mental Disorder and the Law: A Guide to Law and Practice
• Contents
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Part 1 The Law
• Part 2 Practice Issues
• APPENDIX 1: FURTHER READING
• APPENDIX 2: EXTRACT FROM LOCAL AUTHORITY CIRCULAR (99)29
• APPENDIX 3: THE 2007 MENTAL HEALTH ACT DRAFT REVISED CODE OF PRACTICE: CHAPTER 39 – CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18
• APPENDIX 4: THE 2005 MENTAL CAPACITY CODE OF PRACTICE: CHAPTER 12 – HOW DOES THE ACT APPLY TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE?
• SUBJECT INDEX
• INDEX OF LEGISLATION AND GUIDANCE
• AUTHOR INDEX