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Parkinson AM, Patrick, and Philip Morris AM. "Psychiatry, psychotherapy and the criminalisation of ‘conversion therapy’ in Australia." Australasian Psychiatry 29, no. 4 (August 2021): 409–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10398562211014220.

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Objective: To examine laws in three Australian jurisdictions that prohibit therapy to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conclusions: The laws in Victoria and the ACT provide inadequate protection for clinically appropriate psychiatric practice and may deprive patients of mental health care.

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Maylea, Chris, Simon Katterl, Brendan Johnson, Susan Alvarez-Vasquez, Nicholas Hill, and Penelope Weller. "Consumers' experiences of rights-based mental health laws: Lessons from Victoria, Australia." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 78 (September 2021): 101737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2021.101737.

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Katterl, Simon. "Regulatory oversight, mental health and human rights." Alternative Law Journal 46, no. 2 (May 4, 2021): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x211013123.

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Regulatory oversight is crucial to ensure human rights are protected in closed environments. In Victoria, evidence continues to surface that suggests oversight of the public mental health system is failing consumers. There are, however, several lessons for regulators on how to ensure consumers enjoy equal protection of the law.

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Atwell, R., I. Correa‐Velez, and S. Gifford. "Ageing Out of Place: Health and Well‐Being Needs and Access to Home and Aged Care Services for Recently Arrived Older Refugees in Melbourne, Australia." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 3, no. 1 (July 1, 2007): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17479894200700002.

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Recently arrived older refugees in resettlement countries are a particularly vulnerable population who face many risks to their health and well‐being, and many challenges in accessing services. This paper reports on a project undertaken in Victoria, Australia to explore the needs of older people from 14 recently arrived refugee communities, and the barriers to their receiving health and aged care. Findings from consultations with community workers and service providers highlight the key issues of isolation, family conflict and mental illness affecting older refugees, and point to ways in which policy‐makers and service providers can better respond to these small but deserving communities.

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Ioannou, Liane, Sandra Braaf, Peter Cameron, Stephen J. Gibson, Jennie Ponsford, Paul A. Jennings, Carolyn A. Arnold, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, and Melita J. Giummarra. "Compensation System Experience at 12 Months After Road or Workplace Injury in Victoria, Australia." Psychological Injury and Law 9, no. 4 (October 28, 2016): 376–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12207-016-9275-1.

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McDonnell, Elizabeth, and Terry Bartholomew. "Community treatment orders in Victoria: Emergent issues and anomalies." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 4, no. 1 (April 1997): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719709524893.

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Brophy, Lisa M., John E. Reece, and Fiona McDermott. "A cluster analysis of people on Community Treatment Orders in Victoria, Australia." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 29, no. 6 (November 2006): 469–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2006.07.001.

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Freckelton, Ian. "Applications for release by Australians in Victoria found not guilty of offences of violence by reason of mental impairment." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 28, no. 4 (July 2005): 375–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.06.008.

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Perera, Carlyle, and Beth Wilson. "The treatment and care of mentally ill offenders in Victoria, Australia." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 3, no. 1 (April 1996): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719609524874.

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Scott, Russ. "Crimes (Mental Impairment and Fitness for Trial) Act (Victoria)R v Fitchett[2009] VSCA 150Buchanan, Vincent and Ashley JJA." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 18, no. 1 (February 2011): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2010.521126.

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Al-Khafaji, Karim, John Loy, and Anne-Maree Kelly. "Characteristics and outcome of patients brought to an emergency department by police under the provisions (Section 10) of the Mental Health Act in Victoria, Australia." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 37, no. 4 (July 2014): 415–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.013.

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Chu, Chi Meng, and James R. P. Ogloff. "Sentencing of Adolescent Offenders in Victoria: A Review of Empirical Evidence and Practice." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 19, no. 3 (June 2012): 325–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2011.565716.

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Lamb, Katie, Kirsty Forsdike, Cathy Humphreys, and Kelsey Hegarty. "Drawing upon the evidence to develop a multiagency risk assessment and risk management framework for domestic violence." Journal of Gender-Based Violence 6, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 173–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16366281022699.

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Domestic violence poses a threat to the health, safety and wellbeing of women internationally and is associated with a range of physical injuries, chronic mental and physical health issues and death. In recognition of the serious consequences and to guide the allocation of resources, multiple countries have invested in efforts to measure domestic violence risk. This study aimed to determine whether there was an existing validated risk assessment tool with an actuarial element, or a common set of evidence-based risk factors that could be implemented in Victoria, Australia. A tool was sought which would effectively predict risk of severity, lethality and re-assault and support risk management strategies. The tool needed to be suitable for administration by a variety of professionals. Through an audit and analysis of existing tools, the study found an absence of universal standards or guidance for weighting actuarial tools and clear insight into how risk assessments currently inform risk management practice and multidisciplinary responses. However, the literature provides clarity around the key evidence-based risk factors that most commonly form a validated tool for adult victim survivors. The evidence was less definitive in terms of assessing risk of lethality and re-assault for children and young people.

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Bartholomew, Terry. "Legal and clinical enactment of thedoli incapaxdefence in the supreme court of Victoria, Australia." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 5, no. 1 (April 1998): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719809524923.

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Webber, Lynne S., Frank Lambrick, Mandy Donley, Moira Buchholtz, Jeffrey B. Chan, Rod Carracher, and Gunvant Patel. "Restraint and Seclusion of People on Compulsory Treatment Orders in Victoria, Australia in 2008–2009." Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 17, no. 4 (November 2010): 562–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2010.498770.

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Maylea, Chris, and Asher Hirsch. "The right to refuse: The Victorian Mental Health Act 2014 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities." Alternative Law Journal 42, no. 2 (June 2017): 149–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x17710622.

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This article considers how the Victorian Mental Health Act 2014 extinguishes the right of people with a mental illness to refuse treatment in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which prohibits detention or compulsory treatment on the basis of a person’s disability. Three possible resolutions of this inconsistency are proposed and considered: repealing the Mental Health Act 2014, de-linking disability from compulsory treatment, and maintaining legal capacity by supporting mental capacity.

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Ball, J. Richard B. "The Mental Health Act of Victoria." Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 27, no. 1 (January 1995): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00450619509411322.

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Iliffe, Jill. "Mental health laws must change." Nursing Management 23, no. 3 (June 2016): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nm.23.3.13.s10.

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Shah, S. Mudasser, Taipeng Sun, Wei Xu, Wenhao Jiang, and Yonggui Yuan. "The mental health of China and Pakistan, mental health laws and COVID-19 mental health policies: a comparative review." General Psychiatry 35, no. 5 (November 2022): e100885. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2022-100885.

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Mental health is one of the major causes of disability worldwide, and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety are ranked among the top 25 leading causes of disease burden in the world. This burden is considerable over the lifetime of both men and women and in various settings and ages. This study aims to compare the mental health status of people in China and Pakistan and to highlight the mental health laws and policies during COVID-19 and afterwards. According to the literature on mental health, before the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health problems increased gradually, but during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, an abrupt surge occurred in mental health problems. To overcome mental health disorders, most (but not all) countries have mental health laws, but some countries ignore mental health disorders. China is one such country that has mental health laws and policies and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, China made beneficial and robust policies and laws, thereby succeeding in defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. The mortality rate and financial loss were also lower than in other countries. While Pakistan has mental health laws and general health policies, the law is only limited to paperwork and books. When it came to COVID-19, Pakistan did not make any specific laws to overcome the virus. Mental health problems are greater in Pakistan than in China, and China’s mental health laws and policies are more robust and more widely implemented than those in Pakistan. We conclude that there are fewer mental health issues in China than in Pakistan both before and since the COVID-19 pandemic. China has strong mental health laws and these are robustly implemented, while the mental health law in Pakistan is not applied in practice.

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Frieden, Joyce. "Parity Laws Improved Mental Health Coverage." Family Practice News 35, no. 12 (June 2005): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0300-7073(05)70903-8.

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Laing, J. "Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws." Medical Law Review 20, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwr041.

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Galbally, Rhonda. "Mental Health Promotion in Victoria: A Strategic Approach." Australasian Psychiatry 5, no. 1 (February 1997): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10398569709082086.

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Health promotion has proved to be crucial in most areas of health, for example, cardiovascular health, cancer control and injury prevention. However, mental health promotion has hitherto been a very poor cousin by comparison with funds spent on other health promotion areas, and also by comparison with funds spent on mental health services. This situation is understandable. First, there has been a need to shake mental health services out of antiquity to ensure that they not only meet fundamental standards of human rights, but also begin to develop a focus on rehabilitation. Second, the amorphous, unspecific and often haphazard nature of the few existing mental health promotion programs has, to a degree, given mental health promotion a bad name. As mental health promotion initiatives must inevitably relate to social and structural issues, the health content of mental health promotion has sometimes been hard to identify.

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Piperoglou, Michael. "Greeks in Victoria: implications for mental‐health services." Medical Journal of Australia 151, no. 1 (July 1989): 55–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb128462.x.

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Loi, Samantha M., Leesa Bradshaw, and Vicky Gilbert. "Aged persons mental health service in rural Victoria." Australian Journal of Rural Health 25, no. 1 (May 6, 2015): 68–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12179.

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Duke, Michael, and Shaun Ewen. "Implementation of Indigenous Mental Health Training in Victoria." Australasian Psychiatry 17, no. 3 (January 2009): 228–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560802444028.

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Chaskel, Roberto, James M. Shultz, Silvia L. Gaviria, Eliana Taborda, Roland Vanegas, Natalia Muñoz García, Luis Jorge Hernández Flórez, and Zelde Espinel. "Mental health law in Colombia." BJPsych. International 12, no. 4 (November 2015): 92–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000000659.

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Mental health law in Colombia has evolved over the past 50 years, in concert with worldwide recognition and prioritisation of mental healthcare. Laws and policies have become increasingly sophisticated to accommodate the ongoing transformations throughout Colombia's healthcare system and improvements in mental health screening, treatment and supportive care. Mental health law and policy development have been informed by epidemiological data on patterns of mental disorders in Colombia. Colombia is distinguished by the fact that its mental health laws and policies have been formulated during a 60-year period of continuous armed conflict. The mental health of Colombian citizens has been affected by population-wide exposure to violence and, accordingly, the mental health laws that have been enacted reflect this feature of the Colombian experience.

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Vitis, Laura. "Vagaries, Anxieties and the Imagined Paedophile: A Victorian Case Study on Mandatory Sex Offender Registration for Young Adult Registrants Convicted after Non-Consensually Distributing Intimate Images." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i4.1084.

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This article focuses on interviews with two Australian young adults (and their parents) who were placed on Victoria’s Sex Offender Register after being convicted of child pornography offences for non-consensually distributing intimate images. It examines Victoria’s modality of automatic registration—which simultaneously constitutes registrants as paedophilic and responsibilised subjects—and the extent to which this modality was negotiated by both young men. This article also explores the collateral socio-political consequences of registration on career opportunities, mental health and family relationships, and details how these impacts are modulated by young adulthood.

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Castle, David J. "Letter from Australia: mental healthcare in Victoria." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 17, no. 1 (January 2011): 2–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.110.008375.

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SummaryMental health services in the state of Victoria, Australia, have undergone enormous change over the past 15 years, with the closure of all stand-alone psychiatric hospitals and a shift of resources and services into the community. Although successful overall, various areas cause concern, including pressure on acute beds, a paucity of alternative residential options, and suboptimal integration of government and non-government agencies concerned with the care of people with mental illnesses. Certain groups, notably those with complex symptom sets such as substance use and mental illness, intellectual disability and forensic problems, remain poorly catered for by the system. Finally, community stigma and lack of work inclusion for mentally ill individuals are ongoing challenges.

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Jancar, J. "The Burdens — pioneers in mental health." Psychiatric Bulletin 13, no. 10 (October 1989): 552–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.13.10.552.

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Rarely in a lifetime do three people contribute to society in so many ways as the Burdens in Bristol. Here are some of their major achievements.The Reverend Burden and his wifw Katharine opened ‘The Royal Victoria Home’, near Horfield Prison, for the care of inebriate women and girls in moral danger in 1895.

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Mark Anderson, D., Kyutaro Matsuzawa, and Joseph J. Sabia. "Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health." Journal of Law and Economics 64, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 29–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/711128.

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Richardson, G. "Reforming Mental Health Laws: Principle or Pragmatism?" Current Legal Problems 54, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 415–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clp/54.1.415.

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George, Kuruvilla, and Leesa Bradshaw. "An Aged Persons Mental Health Service in Remote Victoria." Australasian Psychiatry 14, no. 2 (June 2006): 202–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1665.2006.02280.x.

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Gerrand, Valerie, Sidney Bloch, Jenny Smith, Margaret Goding, and David Castle. "Reforming Mental Health Care in Victoria: A Decade Later." Australasian Psychiatry 15, no. 3 (June 2007): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560701310874.

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Islam, Rezaul. "Mental health services in the Seychelles." Psychiatric Bulletin 23, no. 9 (September 1999): 565–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.23.9.565.

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When I reached Seychelles to start my new job with the Ministry of Health as a consultant psychiatrist at the Victoria Hospital I had hardly any idea about the islands, let alone its mental health service. But I decided to take the job partly out of curiosity and an interest to see what psychiatry would be on a tourist island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

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Haque, A. "Mental Health Systems Development in UAE." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S488—S489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1795.

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BackgroundThis paper examines the historical development of mental health services in the UAE including formation of federal laws associated with mental health and ministerial decrees. It also discusses cultural considerations in mental health practice in a society that is highly pluralistic and populated mainly by foreigners. The sharia aspects of mental health are also addressed.AimsThe aims of the paper are to familiarize readers in above areas and encourage further work in the area of mental health in UAE.MethodsThe research is based on literature review.ResultsAll federal laws and ministerial decrees are listed and local cultural considerations and sharia laws discussed, as they are unique to his country and region.ConclusionAlthough mental health is traditionally neglected in this country it is developing very fast and it is essential to keep track of and encourage such growth for the benefit of consumers and mental health professionals.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Vos, T., C. Mathers, H. Herrman, C. Harvey, O. Gureje, D. Bui, N. Watson, and S. Begg. "The burden of mental disorders in Victoria, 1996." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 36, no. 2 (April 3, 2001): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001270050290.

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Holt, Ed. "Mental health fears over Hungarian anti-LGBTQI laws." Lancet 397, no. 10293 (June 2021): 2452. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01434-3.

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Munn, Flavia. "Bed shortage hurdle for new mental health laws." Mental Health Practice 20, no. 9 (June 14, 2017): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/mhp.20.9.8.s8.

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Dawson, John, and Annegret Kämpf. "Incapacity principles in mental health laws in Europe." Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 12, no. 3 (2006): 310–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1076-8971.12.3.310.

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Daly, Rich. "Insurance Reform Bill Threatens Mental Health Parity Laws." Psychiatric News 41, no. 7 (April 7, 2006): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.7.0002.

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Campion, J. "Exempting mental health units from smoke-free laws." BMJ 333, no. 7565 (August 26, 2006): 407–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38944.382106.be.

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Meadows, Graham. "Geographical Resource Allocation for Public Mental Health Services in Victoria." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 31, no. 1 (February 1997): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679709073805.

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Objective:To provide background information on the approach of area based funding models for mental health services, to describe the considerations which have come to bear in the development process of the Victorian model, to explore the impacts of different models, and to suggest courses for further development. Method:The history of this approach to funding in the UK and the USA is summarised, then an account is given of the development of the Victorian model. The position is put that the validation of such models is hampered by having only sparse relevant data. Suggestions are made for improving this situation. Results:The Victorian model has come to include adjustments for socioeconomic disadvantage, the age, sex and marital status structure of the population, and a variable discounting for estimated substitutive activity of the private sector. Different methods of combining these adjustments into a working formula can be seen to have very different impacts. Conclusions:The approach taken in development of this model can be expected to have major influence on funding within Victoria, but also more widely in Australia. The impacts of differing assumptions within these models are significant. Specifically targeted epidemiological research, and activity analysis of the private sector will be necessary to enhance the validity of models of this type.

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Gelber, Harry. "The experience of the Royal Children's Hospital mental health service videoconferencing project." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 4, no. 1_suppl (March 1998): 71–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/1357633981931542.

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In April 1995 the Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service in Melbourne piloted the use of videoconferencing in providing access for rural service providers and their clients to specialist child and adolescent psychiatric input. What began as a pilot project has in two years become integrated into the service-delivery system for rural Victoria. The experience of the service in piloting and integrating the use of videoconferencing to rural Victoria has been an important development for child and adolescent mental health services in Australia.

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Gilani, Ahmed Ijaz, Umer Ijaz Gilani, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, and Murad Musa Khan. "Psychiatric Health Laws in Pakistan: From Lunacy to Mental Health." PLoS Medicine 2, no. 11 (September 20, 2005): e317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020317.

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Kim, Jaegwon. "Honderich on mental events and psychoneural laws." Inquiry 32, no. 1 (January 1989): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00201748908602176.

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Alhassani, Ghanem, and Ossama T. Osman. "Mental health law profile: the United Arab Emirates." BJPsych. International 12, no. 3 (August 2015): 70–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000000489.

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There are two federal laws in the UAE from 1981 that are specific to people with mental illnesses and disabilities. Efforts are presently being made to develop other laws addressing the protection of the vulnerable population, including women, children and the elderly. A new updated Mental Health Act is needed to keep in line with the UAE's major leaps achieved in healthcare.

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Seppänen, Allan, and Markku Eronen. "Mental health law in Finland." International Psychiatry 9, no. 4 (November 2012): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600003398.

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A tradition of Romano-Germanic or civil law defines the legal system in Finland. Laws of relevance to psychiatry are the 1990 Mental Health Act and, insofar as it pertains to forensic psychiatry, the Criminal Law (1889) and the Law on State Mental Hospitals (1987, revised 1997). These are outlined in the present paper.

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Luntz, Jennifer J. "What is mental health consultation?" Children Australia 24, no. 3 (1999): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200009238.

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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in consultation at the close of the third decade of its existence as a major form of delivering mental health services in the United States of America, and its somewhat later introduction in Victoria, Australia. Gallessich’s framework for consultation (1983, 1985), amongst others, is compared with the Victorian model. Issues raised include the need for consultants to understand the boundaries of consultation, its limitations, the state of its knowledge base and the uniquely Victorian contribution of a framework of several levels which enables an integration of the knowledge borrowed from a range of sources to assist in the improvement of its practice. A later paper to be published in ‘Children Australia’ looks at the steps in the consultation process.

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Dedman, Paul. "Community Treatment Orders in Victoria, Australia." Psychiatric Bulletin 14, no. 8 (August 1990): 462–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.14.8.462.

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It is one of the failures of contemporary psychiatry that many patients who respond well to neuroleptic medication given to them when they are in-patients relapse after discharge due to not taking any further medication. Those working closely with the acute psychiatric patient in the community are often forced to stand by powerlessly as a patient deteriorates, causing damage to himself and his social milieu until such a point is reached when he is again ill enough to warrant compulsory admission and treatment. This process is, of course, devastating for a patient's family and also disheartening for professionals involved, and is perhaps partly responsible for the high turnover of staff involved in front line services. Even if assertive outreach methods are employed such as those involved in a number of comprehensive community-based programmes (Stein & Test, 1980; Borland et al, 1989) so that contact with the patient is not lost, it is not possible without the necessary legislation to enforce treatment in the community.

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Zielasek, Jürgen, and Wolfgang Gaebel. "Mental health law in Germany." BJPsych. International 12, no. 01 (February 2015): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000000088.

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There is no national mental health law in Germany: the 16 German states are responsible for legislation concerning forced admissions, while the German Civil Code covers non-acute care, in particular for those not able to care for themselves. In forensic psychiatry, both federal and state laws apply. This article describes this situation and provides figures about detentions and other aspects of mental health law in Germany.

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