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Competencies for Disaster Mental Health
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2015Competencies for disaster mental health are essential to domestic and international disaster response capabilities. Numerous consensus-based competency sets for disaster health workers exist, but no prior study identifies and discusses competency sets pertaining specifically to disaster mental health.
Richard V, King +3 more
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Mental Competence and Consent to Treatment
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1980The issue of mental competence in relation to consent to treatment has been high-lighted in the recently amended Mental Health Act in Ontario. The definition of mental competence in this context, how it is to be determined, and some practical implications of the Section of the Act pertaining to this matter, are discussed.
P, Burra, R, Kimberley, C, Miura
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Presumptions Respecting Mental Competence
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994This paper addresses the role(s) played by presumptions regarding mental competence in the context of clinical assessment of decision-making capacity. In particular, the issue of whether or not the usual common law presumption of competence is appropriate and applicable in cases of reassessment of persons previously found incompetent is discussed ...
K V, Madigan +2 more
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Cultural competence in correctional mental health
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2013Cultural competence is an essential aspect of competence as a mental health professional. In this article, the framework of cultural competence developed in general psychiatry-acquiring knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand the interaction between culture and the individual-is applied to the prison setting.
Reena, Kapoor +4 more
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The Competence of Mental Health Occupational Therapists
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2002This research sought to investigate the self-perceived competence of mental health occupational therapists in Queensland. The research is a post-hoc analysis of survey results that formed part of the 1995 Professional Development Strategy for Adult Mental Health Services for the Queensland Health Mental Health Unit.
Greaves, A. +4 more
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Mental competence and the question of beneficent intervention
Theoretical Medicine, 1996The authors examine recent arguments purporting to show that mental incompetence (lack of decision-making capacity) is not a necessary condition for intervention in a person's best interests without consent. It is concluded that these arguments fail to show that competent wishes could justifiably be overturned.
D, Checkland, M, Silberfeld
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Assessment of Mental Competency in Community-Dwelling Elderly
Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 1999We studied the utility of a "vignette method" to assess mental competency for decision making on medical treatment and research participation. A vignette is a description of an imaginary situation in which the subject is asked to decide on a proposed treatment or on participation in research. His or her understanding of the situation and the quality of
Schmand, B. +3 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2010
abstractJustification for psychiatric paternalism is most easily established where mental illness renders the person mentally incompetent, depriving him of the capacity for rational agency and for autonomy, hence undermining the basis for liberal rights against paternalism. But some philosophers, and no doubt some doctors, have been deeply concerned by
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abstractJustification for psychiatric paternalism is most easily established where mental illness renders the person mentally incompetent, depriving him of the capacity for rational agency and for autonomy, hence undermining the basis for liberal rights against paternalism. But some philosophers, and no doubt some doctors, have been deeply concerned by
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Determination of Mental Competency, a Neurological Perspective
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2013This article discusses the evaluation of the capacity of a person to make informed decisions about financial matters, independent living, and informed consent for medical treatment and research. Determination of capacity is a function for which most physicians have little training.
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Competence in mental health care:A hermeneutic perspective
Health Care Analysis, 2004In this paper we develop a hermeneutic approach to the concept of competence. Patient competence, according to a hermeneutic approach, is not primarily a matter of being able to reason, but of being able to interpret the world and respond to it. Capacity should then not be seen as theoretical, but as practical.
Benaroyo, Lazare, Widdershoven, Guy
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