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Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care
Discussions were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with the aid of MAXQDA. Four broad themes related to insufficient resources, staff-related factors, inefficient services, and socio-legal factors were derived. Participants highlighted how inadequate structures, staff shortages, staff attitudes, a lack of training, restrictive ward rules, an inefficient organization of services, the mental health legislation, and public attitudes contributed to the use of coercive measures. The COVID-19 pandemic complicated existing shortfalls in the system and increased the use of coercive measures. The study confirms that the use...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - August 4, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Deborah Oyine Aluh Margarida Santos-Dias Manuela Silva Barbara Pedrosa Ugn ė Grigaitė Ricardo Caetano Silva Maria Ferreira de Almeida Mousinho Jo ão Paulo Antunes Mariana Remelhe Gra ça Cardoso Jos é Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida Source Type: research

Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul-Aug;89:101909. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101909. Epub 2023 Jul 17.ABSTRACTThe responsibility of persons with brain disorders who commit offenses may depend on how their disorders alter brain mechanisms for culpability. Criminal behavior can result from brain disorders that alter social cognition including a neuromoral system of intuitive moral emotions that are absolute (deontological) normative codes and that includes an emotion-mediated evaluation of intentionality. This neuromoral system has its hub in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) with other frontal, anterior temporal-amygdala...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Mario F Mendez Source Type: research

Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul-Aug;89:101908. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101908. Epub 2023 Jul 17.ABSTRACTIn recent years, political events have reignited contentious debates about psychiatry and democratic governance. This discourse has largely centred around the ethics and morality of public commentary, particularly in relation to the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule. Yet, few studies have examined the practical implications of health-related limitations due to mental illness in national leadership and the constitutional and legal provisions that surround these issues, including voluntary or involuntary pr...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Alexander Smith Stefan Theil Stephen D Hart Michael Liebrenz Source Type: research