This book enables participants in family and child care litigation in the UK to understand the psychiatric issues arising in such cases so as to perform their own duties in an informed way. Dealing with the nature of psychiatric disorders in all their common presentations, this indispensable book provides comprehensive advice to participants in litigation, making use of clinical examples from the author's medical-legal practice. The book also offers practitioners thorough explanations of areas such as diagnosis and capacity, thus acting as a bridge between the law and adult psychiatric practice. Adult Psychiatry in Family and Child Law is essential reading for those professionals who need to identify psychiatric issues, instruct relevant experts, and evaluate such evidence. It is written for lawyers, judges, justice clerks, social workers, and experts in other fields who may need to inform themselves of the work of the adult psychiatrist. Contents include: the psychiatric examination; psychiatric disorders and their classifications - including organic mental disorders, psychotic disorders, disorders of mood, and disorders of dependence and appetite; consent, confidentiality, and capacity; and the UK's Mental Health Act 1983.

Adult Psychiatry in Family And Child Law

Mahendra, B.

Family Law

Jordans Pub

<p>The importance of expert evidence in matters concerning the family and children is now well recognized. Legal practitioners and those who work with them need to achieve a significant degree of knowledge and understanding of particular areas of expert evidence in order to be in a position to be able to commission the relevant evidence and, when that has been received, to be able to analyze the opinion and advise the parties/court in an effective manner. This book deals with psychiatric expert evidence as it applies to mental disorders concerning children, adolescents, and adults. The full range of psychiatric disorders is examined. A particular innovation is that the disorders are not considered separately but in relation to the full range of age groups. To an increasing extent, disorders appear to move seamlessly between age groups. The purpose of this study is to help understand the issues as they arise in family and child law proceedings. The final part of the book examines issues such as pathology within the family, the socio-cultural background to psychiatric pathology, violent behavior, the assessment of risk in situations involving the family and children, and also issues relating to mental capacity.</p>

Family Psychiatric Practice: A Guide for Lawyers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Jordan Publishing Limited

A Collapse of the Middle Order

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Blackie & Co Publishers

Three points must strike anyone who has embarked on a study of dementia over a period of time. Firstly, that our conception of the syndrome is in a state of flux. Gone, for instance, in the past decade or two, is the requirement of a chronic, progressive, irreversible disorder for the diag nosis. I remember the surgeon who, when I was a student, returned a referral saying he would operate on the man when his dementia got better. Feeling superior, and encouraged by the consultant psychiatrist, we students laughed a good deal at this. Before we finished clerking on that Unit a visiting Professor of Psychiatry had demonstrated the reversibility of the symptoms of dementia in a patient with a rare metabolic disorder. Perhaps ignorance is sometimes an advance on received wisdom. The lesson is the concept of dementia must always reflect the state of knowledge and is therefore in a sense ad hoc. Secondly, what the criteria for, and also who the arbiters of, the diagnosis might be is not always clear. It is traditional to think that expressing opinions and making diagnosis of mental illness is almost a civic right, i.e.

Dementia: A survey of the syndrome of dementia

Medical Books

Medicine

Springer

<p>The purpose of this book is to acknowledge the universality of depression, to throw some light on those aspects of depression which are neglected in the more conventional treatments of the subject and also to attempt to provide a synthesis between the biological and socio-environmental factors which lead to the onset of depression and modify its course. A book devoted to depression has the advantage that it has the space at its disposal to explain and clarify concepts and promising ideas that a chapter in even a comprehensive textbook does not have. A single author writing about all the relevant aspects of a subject brings with him the merit of uniformity, continuity and lack of repetition. He is also more fallible in some areas than others, which finds an exact parallel in the experience of clinicians in their practice. A multi-author, multi-specialist work portrays an air of omniscience and omnicompetence which many clinicians find dispiriting. It is likely a considerable number of practising clinicians will have a greater knowledge and experience in some areas of the subject of this book. than I have and will feel emboldened to approach others. The entire work is informed by historical considerations. The lesson of history is to be open-minded and not to judge too harshly those that have gone before.</p>

Depression: The disorder and its associations

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