The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringin

The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringin

This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. It focuses on a wider unde

An advance directive is a way of making a person's views known if he or she should become mentally incapable of giving consent to treatment, or making informed

Individuals with mental illness have a legal and ethical right to complete advance treatment planning documents in Canada. Psychiatric advance directives (PADs)