Mental Capacity and Decision Making in Bipolar Disorder
Journal Title: Peer Reviewed Journal of Forensic & Genetic Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Bipolar disorder is a chronic, recurrent and potentially debilitating illness characterised by fluctuations in mood state and energy, which is associated with significant impairments in cognitive, social and everyday functioning. Difficulties appear especially in the manic or depressive phase, but this disorder allows more than half of these patients to have a normal life and make their own decisions when no severe symptoms appear, which is in these patients for most of their life. To determine that a person does not have the capacity to make his own decisions, a mental disorder of enough severity to be unable to understand, appreciate and reason about relevant information for decision making must appear. All intermediate courses are preferred rather than extreme courses. Incapacitation must be avoided as long as it is not strictly necessary and seek less drastic measures or support systems.
Authors and Affiliations
Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo, Julio David Vaquerizo Serrano
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP654996
- DOI 10.32474/PRJFGS.2018.03.000152
- Views 205
- Downloads 0
Ethanol Neogenesis in Stored Blood
During the investigation of accidental cases, blood samples obtained from accidental victim are submitted to forensic science laboratory for toxicological analysis. All through, ethanol analysis is performed on almost al...
A Critical Exploration of Ethical Decision Making through Disability and Ethnicity-Case study
This essay will focus on the ethical judgements required when working with a client with disability and different ethnicity in counselling and how these may differ from able bodied clients. It includes a c...
Genetic Counseling and Testing for Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults: Mini-Review
olorectal cancer (CRC) has one of the largest proportions of familial cases. Two to 5% of all colon cancers arise in the setting of inherited syndromes, including Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer...
The Concealed Evidence - Case Report
Mobile crime scene investigating team plays an important role to sorting numerous important and sensational crimes. It is important that the crime scene investigator recognize that physical evidence recovered from these...
Victims of the Civil War and the Franco Repression in Asturias: A Provisional Balance
ounting and naming the dead of armed conflicts, massacres and any historical traumatic event is not yet an easy task; even less if they mediated long decades with a dictatorship of almost forty years in between. More dif...