Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right?
In 2008 Brazil ratified The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) an international legal instrument specifically tailored to stipulate the rights of persons with disabilities and include those with serious mental disorders. United Nations Committee set up t...
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| description | In 2008 Brazil ratified The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) an international legal instrument specifically tailored to stipulate the rights of persons with disabilities and include those with serious mental disorders. United Nations Committee set up to monitor the implementation of the Convention (CRPD Committee) lead to an insistence that involuntary detention and treatment of people with mental health (or “psychosocial”) disabilities are prohibited. There is a debate about this topic that poses an impossibility of involuntary psychiatric admission in hospital. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35c80286453840c2bbf2a80bab7d52b92022-12-22T03:42:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-07-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.879093879093Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right?Sergio Tamai0Sergio Tamai1Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilDepartment of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Santa Casa São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, BrazilIn 2008 Brazil ratified The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) an international legal instrument specifically tailored to stipulate the rights of persons with disabilities and include those with serious mental disorders. United Nations Committee set up to monitor the implementation of the Convention (CRPD Committee) lead to an insistence that involuntary detention and treatment of people with mental health (or “psychosocial”) disabilities are prohibited. There is a debate about this topic that poses an impossibility of involuntary psychiatric admission in hospital.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.879093/fullethicsinvoluntary admissionpsychiatrymental healthhuman rights |
| spellingShingle | Sergio Tamai Sergio Tamai Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? Frontiers in Psychiatry ethics involuntary admission psychiatry mental health human rights |
| title | Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? |
| title_full | Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? |
| title_fullStr | Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? |
| title_short | Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty or a Human Right? |
| title_sort | involuntary psychiatric admission arbitrary deprivation of liberty or a human right |
| topic | ethics involuntary admission psychiatry mental health human rights |
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