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Psychiatric risk assessment in child and family law
- Author:
- MAHENDRA B.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Law, 38, June 2008, pp.569-571.
- Publisher:
- Jordan
Discusses the approaches that psychiatric risk assessment can take in cases involving family and child proceedings. Areas discussed include: violence against children, sexual violence and parental alienation. It is stressed that psychiatric risk assessment should be used as part of a comprehensive risk assessment including other facets of behaviour.
Behaviour, not diagnosis: some misconceptions in the psychiatry of family and child law
- Author:
- MAHENDRA B.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Law, 38, February 2008, pp.159-171.
- Publisher:
- Jordan
This article draws attention to the kinds of behaviour that may have relevance in family and child law, such as behaviour arising from parental mental health problems. It is argued that there are many individuals with mental health problems who are fully capable of performing their obligations as a parent. The author conclude by stating that behaviour should be evaluated in its own right and assumptions should not be made on the basis of past or concurrent mental health problems suffered by the individual.
Risk assessment in psychiatry: a guide for lawyers
- Author:
- MAHENDRA B.
- Publisher:
- Family Law
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 276p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This guidebook is designed for a non-specialist audience to understand the main concepts of in part I, the range of psychiatric orders, and in part II, risk assessment in psychiatry. The text is supported by 5 appendices detailing practice direction given by the Experts in Family Proceedings relating to children, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Pt 1) and Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Pt 1), accounts of 4 court cases which illustrate key points of law and a selected bibliography. Also provided is a glossary and tables of all court cases and statutes, referenced in the text. In this book, risk assessment is defined as the evaluation of risk of aggression or untoward behaviour during proceedings, involving children, families, lawyers and other professionals. In addition, it is also viewed from the perspective of the risk of occurrence of psychiatric disorder, which has implications for employment, personal injury and mental health laws. Psychiatric topics and orders covered in detail in the 9 chapters of part I include diagnosis, intervention and treatment, dementias, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, stress, substance misuse, gambling addiction, eating disorders, personality disorders, learning disabilities, autism, Aspergers syndrome, postnatal depression and other psychoses, and hypochondriacal neuroses such as Munchausens syndrome.