What is it about?
A collaborative effort between scholars from Australia, Northern Ireland and Canada, charting the various legal developments that seek to put supported decision-making into practice.
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Why is it important?
Supported decision-making is a new and challenging concept advanced in international human rights law. Yet, few governments, policymakers, advocates and others know what this will mean in practice. This paper charts some of the advances - and barriers - to implementation.
Perspectives
This was a genuinely international effort to share, compare and contrast developments in our respective countries. While some of the information is dated, the paper reflects a genuine effort at understanding supported decision-making, and moving from rhetoric to practice.
Dr Piers M Gooding
University of Melbourne
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This page is a summary of: An international comparison of legal frameworks for supported and substitute decision-making in mental health services, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, January 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2015.08.029.
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