Training: Representing Clients Who Decline Treatment
Hosted by Anna Lembo (Worcester) and John Mitchell (Bristol)
Viewing of God Knows Where I Am
Discussion about Applebaum’s 1979 publication Rotting with Their Rights On addressing drug refusal by psychiatric patients
Discussion about a client’s legal right to decline treatment and limited insight testimony
God Knows Where I Am is a documentary about Linda Bishop, a well-educated New Hampshire mother who battled mental illness and homelessness.
Rotting with Their Rights On is a 1979 study by P.S. Appelbaum & T.G. Gutheil fully entitled Rotting with rights on: constitutional theory and clinical reality in drug refusal by psychiatric patients
Date & Time: Friday, January 10, 2025, 1:00pm – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Advanced registration: REQUIRED
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-mhrj0pE9RdP2ripfbG0XVvRCc2hOvo
Upon completion of this seminar, you will:
- Understand your role in representing a client with mental illness
- Understand the autonomy of choice regarding treatment has shifted in the psychiatric profession from right to refuse treatment to decision-making capacity to make that decision
- Learn that insight may be an indicator of lack-of decision-making capacity, but that the two concepts are different
- Effectively be challenge limited insight testimony at trial and how to advocate for decision-making capacity
Questions: call Anna Lembo, Esq. (781) 894-0022 or email [email protected]
Worcester County Regional Coordinator