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Rethinking Mental Health Laws: An Integrated Approach

Seminar and Conference Papers

2009

 Date

 Presenter

 Details

16-17 May Professor Bernadette McSherry

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
Autumn Symposium: Control and the Professionals
Topic: Agents of State Control: The Ethics of Risk Assessment Testimony for Preventive Detention Schemes

31 May to 6 Jun Professor Bernadette McSherry

Greek/Australian International Legal and Medical Conference
12th Annual Conference: Our Challenged World: How can Law and Medicine Respond?
Topic: Rethinking Mental Health Laws: International Trends [PDF 91kb]

31 May to 6 Jun Ronli Sifris

Greek/Australian International Legal and Medical Conference
12th Annual Conference: Our Challenged World: How can Law and Medicine Respond?
Topic: Laws prohibiting abortion: A violation of the right to health?
This article argues that restricting access to abortion services violates the international legal right to health.
The article begins by discussing the nature and sources of the right to health under international law. It then proceeds to consider the development of the right to reproductive health as part of the general right to health. The central proposition of the article is that the right to access abortion services forms a part of the right to reproductive health. Therefore, abortion restrictive regulation violates the right to reproductive health as part
 of the general right to health. Further, not only do laws restricting access to abortion services prima facie violate the right to health, but they also violate the requirement that this right be implemented without discrimination of any kind.

24-26 Jun Professor Bernadette McSherry
Keynote Speaker

International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
9th Annual Conference:Facing the Future: Forensic Mental Health Services in Change
Topic: Managing Fear: Preventive detention and the role of mental health professionals

24-26 Jun Jamie Walvisch

International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
9th Annual Conference: Facing the Future: Forensic Mental Health Services in Change
Topic: Just Deserts for the “Mad Bomber”: A Coherent Approach to Sentencing People With Mental Illnesses [PDF 89kb]


2008

 Date

 Presenter

 Details

2 -5 Dec Dr Penny Weller

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
2008 Annual Conference: Re-imagining Society
Abstract: Reclaiming a sociological voice in mental health law [PDF 67kb]

25 & 26 Oct Dr Penny Weller

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress: Risks vs Rights
Paper 1: The right to health in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: developing principles for clinical practice [PDF 16kb]

Paper 2: Collaborative decision making: An international comparison of psychiatric advance directive provisions

25 & 26 Oct Professor Ian Freckelton
[with Danielle Andrewartha]

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress: Risks vs Rights
Paper 1: Fitness to interview: Review, reform and reconceptualisation
Paper 2: Duties and rights to detain the suicidal and dangerous: the liability of psychiatrists and police

25 Oct Annegret Kämpf

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress: Risks vs Rights
Paper: Community treatment orders in the light of a new human rights framework

25 Oct Liz Richardson Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress: Risks vs Rights
Paper: Mental health courts and diversion programs for mentally ill offenders: the Australian context
24 Oct Ronli Sifris

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress:Risks vs Rights
Poster: Mental Health Consequences of Forced Sterilizations and Prohibitions on Abortion

24 Oct Professor Bernadette McSherry Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
28th Annual Congress:Risks vs Rights
The precautionary principle: Why security always trumps individual rights
09 Oct Professor Bernadette McSherry

50th Anniversary Public Lecture
Opening minds not locking doors: rethinking mental health laws [PDF 258kb]

10-12 Sep Dr Penny Weller and
Professor Bernadette McSherry

Global Consortium for the Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health ( GCAPP)
5th World Conference: Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: From Margins to Mainstream
Abstract: The role of law in the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of health and well-being [PDF  68kb]

11 Aug Professor Bernadette McSherry

Monday Colloquium
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and North Western Mental Health
Seminar: Rethinking Mental Health Laws: International Trends

29 Jul Professor Bernadette McSherry Monash Student Association
Seminar: Women's Leadership Forum
13-17 Jul Professor Bernadette McSherry

International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
8th Annual Conference:The Interface between Forensic and General Mental Health Services
Paper: Hospital Orders For Mentally Ill Offenders In Australia: An Appropriate Diversionary Option?

13-17 Jul Liz Richardson International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
8th Annual Conference:The Interface between Forensic and General Mental Health Services
Paper: Mental health courts and diversion programs for mentally ill offenders: the Australian context [PDF 190kb]
26-28 Jun Dr Penny Weller

Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
19th Annual Conference
Abstract Accepted: The Emerging Principles in International Jurisprudence, Gender and the Right to Health [PDF 18kb]

13-15 May Professor Bernadette McSherry

The Australian Society of Legal Philosophy
Annual Conference
Paper: From Prediction to Precaution: Criminalisation in a Time of Uncertainty

30 May Dr Penny Weller

The Law and Society Association
Annual Conference
Abstract: Law and Urban Slums: The Emergence of Exclusionary Power  [PDF 26kb]

11-17 Jun Dr Penny Weller Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality
Urban Planet: Collective Identities, Governance and empowerment in Megacities
Paper: The modernity of mega-cities: Echoes in history, power and the politics of difference [PDF 60kb]
12 May Dr Penny Weller

Forum on Advance Directives for the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT
Paper: Advance Directives and the Translation of Human Rights Principles in Mental Health Law Towards a Contextual Analysis [PDF 176 Kb]

10-11 May Professor Bernadette McSherry

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL), Victorian Branch
Autumn Symposium: Political Elements in the Practice of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Paper: From Prediction to Precaution: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Role of Mental Health Professionals

8-9 May Dr Leanne Craze Victorian peak body for community mental health support services, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria (VICSERV)
Joining the Dots ... Creating Community
Paper:Taking our place: Community mental health services in Australia  [PDF 132kb]
18-19 Apr Professor Bernadette McSherry

Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL), South Australian Branch
Seminar: Addictions & Criminal Responsibility
Paper: Drug-Associated Psychoses and Criminal Responsibility [PDF 96kb]

19 Feb Professor Bernadette McSherry

Monash University Criminal Justice Research Consortium (CJRC)
Seminar: Rethinking Mental Health Laws: Developing Model Frameworks [PDF 330kb]