Use of advance directives to promote supported decision-making in mental health care: Implications of international trends for reform in New Zealand

Advance directives are advocated, in many jurisdictions, as a way to promote supported decision-making for people who use mental health services and to promote countries' compliance with their obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The United...

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Published inAustralian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry Vol. 57; no. 5; p. 636
Main Authors Lenagh-Glue, Jessie, Dawson, John, Potiki, Johnnie, O'Brien, Anthony J, Thom, Katey, Casey, Heather, Glue, Paul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.05.2023
Subjects
Advance Directives
Decision Making
Human Rights
Humans
Mental Health
Mental Health Services
New Zealand
New Zealand
Advance directives
law reform
supported decision-making
disability rights
Mental Health Act
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Summary:Advance directives are advocated, in many jurisdictions, as a way to promote supported decision-making for people who use mental health services and to promote countries' compliance with their obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes the use of tools to further personal autonomy which would include integrating the use of advance directives into mental health law, to clarify the effect (or force) an advance directive carries when its maker comes under the relevant mental health legislation. In addition, securing the active use of advance directives requires adoption of certain supportive practices and policies within health services. Here, we discuss a number of approaches taken to advance directives in revised mental health legislation, and the associated practices we think are required.
ISSN:1440-1614
DOI:10.1177/00048674221079225