All Outputs (5)

Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Ritchie, L., Egdell, V., Danson, M., Cook, M., Stavert, J., & Tolson, D. (2022). Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia. Work, Employment and Society, 36(4)

The importance of remaining in, or re-entering, the labour market is emphasised by governments internationally. While this may bring benefits, progressive disabilities such as dementia affect an individual’s employability. Although employers have leg... Read More about Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia.

Mental health advance statements: crossing the divide from clinical to law enforcement settings (2020)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2021). Mental health advance statements: crossing the divide from clinical to law enforcement settings. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 28(1), 102-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12695

It is clear that police in many jurisdictions are increasingly being called out to situations involving persons with mental distress. In Scotland, for example, notifications of Place of Safety Orders to the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland incr... Read More about Mental health advance statements: crossing the divide from clinical to law enforcement settings.

Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying (2020)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2020). Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying. Journal of Integrated Care, 28(4), 379-385. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-06-2020-0038

Purpose To inform those who are supporting persons who are dying and are responsible for planning, commissioning or delivering palliative care about the need to support and maximise the decision-making ability and choices of persons with advanced de... Read More about Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying.

Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? (2020)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2020). Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?. In C. Spivakovsky, L. Steele, & P. Weller (Eds.), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the

When enacted Scottish capacity and mental health legislation was internationally regarded as world leading in terms of presenting human rights-based approaches to interventions. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitie... Read More about Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?.

Scottish mental health and capacity law: The normal, pandemic and ‘new normal’ (2020)
Journal Article
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2020). Scottish mental health and capacity law: The normal, pandemic and ‘new normal’. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101593

A state’s real commitment to its international human rights obligations is never more challenged than when it faces emergency situations. Addressing actual and potential resourcing pressures arising from the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in, amongst... Read More about Scottish mental health and capacity law: The normal, pandemic and ‘new normal’.