The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has generated new ideas and standards in healthcare and disability law and policy. In the menta

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice. This book explores this challenge.

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

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Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "law and order" in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual