Making Decisions for Presumed Incompetents

Substitute Decision Making

• McCubbin, M., & Cohen, D. (1998). Les droits des usagers de services en santé mentale: Le noeud étroit du pouvoir, de la loi et de l'éthique [the rights of mental health service users: the tight knot of power, law and ethics]. Santé mentale au Québec, 23, 212-224. English presentation to XXIVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Toronto, June 1999, available HTTP: http://www.oikos.org/mentalrights.htm

   

Forced Treatment

• The MacArthur Foundation Coercion Study. 
• Analysis of the Scientific Grounds for Forced Treatment by Michael McCubbin, Ph.D. and David Cohen, Ph.D.  This article concludes that forced treatment is rarely, if ever, justifiable with respect to persons considered to be suffering from psychological distress or mental disorder.  This is not based upon moral arguments, but on the basis that scientific research renders almost moot the moral arguments because of the lack of efficacy of forced treatment.

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