Mental Competency

11.

Questioning the decision-making capacity of surrogates.

When patients are unable to make medical decisions for themselves due to cognitive impairment, surrogate decision makers are often called on to guide the medical team. Important to any decision made on behalf of the patient is that the decision reflects ...
K A Bramstedt (Intern Med J, 200305-06)
questioning-decision-making-capacity-surrogates.asp

12.

Pitfalls in assessment of decision-making capacity.

A total of 395 consultation-liaison psychiatrists, geriatricians, and geriatric psychologists responded to a survey that asked them to rate the frequency and importance to clinical care of 23 potential pitfalls and misunderstandings by clinicians who ...
Linda Ganzini, Ladislav Volicer, William Nelson, Arthur Derse (Psychosomatics, 200305-06)
pitfalls-assessment-decision-making-capacity.asp

13.

Providing treatment to prisoners with mental disorders: development of a policy. Selective literature review and expert consultation exercise.

BACKGROUND: Mental disorder is more prevalent among people in prison than in the general population. Prisoners who require transfer to psychiatric hospitals for treatment face long delays. Doctors working in prisons regularly face ethical and legal ...
Mark Earthrowl, John OGrady, Luke Birmingham (Br J Psychiatry, 200304)
providing-treatment-prisoners-mental-disorders-development-policy.asp

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No-suicide contracts and informed consent: an analysis of ethical issues.

The no-suicide contract is a frequently utilized tool in both the assessment and dispersal of suicidal patients. However, little attention has been given to questioning whether suicidal persons are able to give informed consent to enter such a contract. ...
Tony L Farrow, Anthony J OBrien (Nurs Ethics, 200303)
suicide-contracts-informed-consent-analysis-ethical-issues.asp

15.

Mastery motivation in young children with Downs syndrome: relations with cognitive and adaptive competence.

BACKGROUND: Prior research on relations between motivation and competence have focused on cognitive competence, despite theoretical predictions that mastery motivation spurs behaviour that is effective in meeting the demands of ones environment, i.e. ...
A Niccols, L Atkinson, D Pepler (J Intellect Disabil Res, 200302)
mastery-motivation-young-children-down-s-syndrome-relations-cognitive.asp

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Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder.

What renders some mentally disordered patients incapable of informed consent to medical interventions? It is argued that a patient is incapable of giving informed consent owing to mental disorder, if a mental disorder prevents a patient from ...
C W Van Staden, C Krüger (J Med Ethics, 200302)
incapacity-give-informed-consent-owing-mental-disorder.asp

17.

General practitioners perspectives regarding competence and confidentiality in an adolescent with suspected anorexia nervosa: legal and ethical considerations.

In Victoria, Australia, the legal position regarding young peoples competence to make medical treatment decisions has not been clarified in legislation, and a number of often vague common law decisions must be relied on for guidance. This situation ...
Terence P Bartholomew, Susan J Paxton (J Law Med, 200302)
general-practitioners-perspectives-competence-confidentiality.asp

18.

Law and geriatrics: an Israeli perspective on future challenges.

This paper describes current problems in Israel in the fields of geriatric medicine and elder law. The background to the problems is discussed, with a commentary on the deficiencies in everyday practice. The author presents proposals for change both in ...
Israel Doron (Med Law, 2003)
law-geriatrics-israeli-perspective-future-challenges.asp

19.

The competency of criminal defendants to refuse, for delusional reasons, a viable insanity defense recommended by counsel.

This article addresses the issues of whether mentally ill defendants charged with serious crimes who refuse to plead a viable and counsel-recommended insanity defense for delusional reasons (but who are otherwise competent to stand trial) should be ...
Thomas R Litwack (Behav Sci Law, 2003)
competency-criminal-defendants-refuse-delusional-reasons-viable.asp

20.

Effectiveness of participation as a defendant: the attorney-juvenile client relationship.

Recent changes in the processing of juveniles in the justice system place greater significance on childrens capacities to participate in legal contexts. Effective participation as a defendant encompasses abilities beyond those legally required for ...
Melinda G Schmidt, N Dickon Reppucci, Jennifer L Woolard (Behav Sci Law, 2003)
effectiveness-participation-defendant-attorney-juvenile-client.asp