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Title: Mental health law in postmodern society: time for new paradigms?(Victoria)(Detention, Decisions and Dilemmas: Reviewing Involuntary Detention and Treatment into the 21st Century)
Author: Terry Carney
Publication: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Australian Academic Press Pty. Ltd.
Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Page: 12(21)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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This article reviews the "rights" versus "access to treatment" debate in mental health law and policy. It asks, among other things, whether contemporary policy is compatible with civil rights standards, whether community-based care is adequate and "fair", and whether it is well placed to cope with present and future challenges (such as privatisation of services, reduced visibility of need and neglect, populist campaigns against public "risk" allegedly posed by certain personality disorders, and access and equity needs within cultural diversity). It is concluded that legislation and policy passes international human rights scrutiny, but it is argued that debate urgently needs to move on to craft the content (and monitor the performance) of new instruments; instruments better attuned to the community-based...


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