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How to Respect the Will of Mentally Ill Persons?

Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2013
In this article I oppose the current account of autonomy and informed consent in bioethics through criticising the four underlying prejudices of an objectivistic, dualistic, rationalistic and individualistic misunderstanding of the will. With special regard to the case of patients with dementia I argue for the thesis that the principle of autonomy, as ...
Theda Rehbock
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Provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing (PICT) in the mentally ill [PDF]

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2013
The prevalence of HIV infection is substantially higher in mentally ill individuals than in the general population. Despite this, HIV testing is not yet standard practice among the mentally ill population, and many mental health settings do not encourage
F Y Jeenah, M Y H Moosa
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A New Path for the Prevention of Illegal Acts Committed by Mentally Ill Persons in China: Improving the Legal Supervision Function of the Chinese Procuratorial Organs [PDF]

, 2022
This research aims to study the prevention of illegal behaviors of mentally ill persons. This paper analyzes Chinese laws and regulations involving the prevention of unlawful behaviors of mentally ill persons, and examines a typical criminal case, using ...
Jiang, Pengfei
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Behavior of general population toward mentally ill persons in digital India: Where are we?

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2021
Background: We aimed to find out the overall reported and intended behavior of the general population of India toward mentally ill persons. Materials and Methods: Participants were included in an online survey using a nonprobability snowball sampling ...
Abhishek Bharti, Harpreet Singh, Deepak Singh, Vipin Kumar   +3 more
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Mental health literacy and attitudes in a Swedish community sample – Investigating the role of personal experience of mental health care [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Mental ill health is a common condition in the general population, yet only about half of those with a mental disorder have treatment contact. Personal experience may affect attitudes, which in turn influence the help-seeking process.
A Aboraya, A Janca, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, AF Jorm, American Psychiatric Association, Bo Runeson, CA Rijnders, CJ Hugo, CJ Murray, DA Regier, DJ van Schaik, DV Sheehan, E Kringlen, ES Paykel, H Matschinger, I Lundberg, I Schmidt, IM Marks, J Alonso, J Ormel, J Rabinowitz, JB Saunders, JJ Gallo, K Dahlberg, Karin M Dahlberg, LJ Fisher, M Alegria, M Dahlin, Margda Waern, MC Angermeyer, MC Angermeyer, MC Angermeyer, NJ Highet, O Benkert, P Bech, P Bech, P Cuijpers, P McKeon, P Sobocki, R Mojtabai, RC Kessler, RC Kessler, RD Goldney, RD Goldney, RD Goldney, RV Bijl, RV Bijl, S Dietrich, SPSS Corporation, Swedish Psychiatric Association, V Lehtinen, Y Forsell   +56 more
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Perception and beliefs about mental illness among adults in Karfi village, northern Nigeria [PDF]

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2004
BACKGROUND: This study was designed to examine the knowledge, attitude and beliefs about causes, manifestations and treatment of mental illness among adults in a rural community in northern Nigeria. METHODS: A cross sectional study design was used. A pre-
A Alem, A Holzinger, AF Jorm, B Trute, D Bhugra, G Wolff, G Wolff, Isa S Abubakar, J Frenk, M Iliyasu, MG Madianos, Mohammed Kabir, Muktar H Aliyu, National Population Commission, S Pfeifer, SL Ng, SR White, TN Srinivasan, TO Adebowale, WHO, WHO, Zubair Iliyasu   +21 more
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Legal status of persons with mental illness in Serbia [PDF]

Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, 2004
In this study, legal status of the mentally ill has been discussed in the context of Serbian legislation. The topics covered are the following: 1) the admission of persons with mental illness to psychiatric institution, 2) general (legal) competence, 3) marital relations of persons with mental illness, 4) legal definitions of sanity and security ...
Jovanović Aleksandar A.
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Physician assisted-dying in mentally and somatically ill individuals in Switzerland: Protocol for survey-based study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundArticle 115 of the Swiss Penal Code (StGB) permits physician-assisted dying (PAD), provided it is not performed for “selfish reasons,” and thus, occupies a special role in international comparison.
Eva Kowalinski, Tiziana Ziltener, Tiziana Ziltener, Sarah Staub, Julian Moeller, Julian Moeller, Manuel Trachsel, Manuel Trachsel, Manuel Trachsel, Andres R. Schneeberger, Andres R. Schneeberger, Andres R. Schneeberger, Andres R. Schneeberger, Irina Franke, Irina Franke, Undine E. Lang, Christian G. Huber   +16 more
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Criminal law and mental illness [PDF]

Sociologija, 2015
The paper deals with the problem of criminal law reaction to behavior of mentally ill, insane offenders who violate or threaten the criminal law protected values.
Stojanović Zoran
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Victimization of psychiatric patients [PDF]

Temida, 2007
Because of their biological, and, especially, psychological and social characteristics, psychiatric patients can often become victims of very different modalities of activities which cause harm to them.
Ćirić Zoran
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