Involuntary mental health treatment in the era of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Faraaz Mahomed; Michael Ashley Stein; Vikram Patel

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002679

Involuntary mental health treatment in the era of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

PLoS Med. 2018 Oct 18;15(10):e1002679. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002679. eCollection 2018 Oct.

Authors

Faraaz Mahomed^{1

2}, Michael Ashley Stein^{2

3}, Vikram Patel^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
³ University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Abstract

Based on interviews with a variety of participants, Vikram Patel and colleagues advocate for philosophical and practical progress toward recognizing decision-making capacity in people with psychosocial disabilities.

MeSH terms

Administrative Personnel
Decision Making
Disabled Persons / legislation & jurisprudence*
Disabled Persons / psychology
Health Personnel
Human Rights* / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Involuntary Treatment, Psychiatric* / ethics
Involuntary Treatment, Psychiatric* / legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Competency
Mental Disorders / therapy*
Organizations
Personal Autonomy
United Nations

Grants and funding

No specific funding was received for this study.