Supported Decision-Making: A Rights-Based Disability Concept and its Implications for Mental Health Law
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This article seeks to clarify the concept of supported decision-making and to consider its major implications for mental health law. It draws on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability as well as the broader literature on supported decision-making in order to distinguish some of its conceptual features and to provide an overview of relevant debate. Emerging examples of supported decision-making in legislation, policy and programming are drawn upon to demonstrate the variety of measures that might constitute practical supported decision-making in the mental health context.
Source: Psychiatry Psychology and Law
Author: Piers Gooding
Institution: Monash University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2004952253