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Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

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This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment of decisional capacity in psychiatric patients, including topics such as informed consent, coercive measures, mental health law, involuntary hospitalization, competency assessment, seclusion and restraint, patient autonomy, capacity evaluation, and ethical considerations.

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mental health law; decision-making capacity; physical restraint; involuntary treatment; involuntary admission; involuntary psychiatric treatment; civil commitment; seclusion; mental health law reform; involuntary psychiatric admission; competency to stand trial; Mental Capacity Act 2005; Mental Health Act; Mental Health Act 1983; coercion in mental health care; mechanical restraint; capacity assessment; psychiatric detention; best interests; coercive measures; involuntary detention; restrictive practices; involuntary psychiatric hospitalization; community treatment orders; legal incapacity

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Morton address: 36253134974650580 · morton4x16-v1

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