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Piers Gooding
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Socio-legal academic @latrobelaw, ARC DECRA Fellow, Honorary Fellow @MDI_unimelb // Disability & health-related law, policy, practice, sometimes technology //
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Something seemed off in interviews. “We had finally figured it out: we were not hearing lived experience — we were hearing a ChatGPT ‘script,’ prepped to anticipate our questions and deliver just-plausible-enough answers in the voice of someone it imagined we wanted to talk to.”
Researchers set out to study how people are using chatbots to manage their mental health, recruiting participants and compensating them for their time. Then realised they were hearing ChatGPT ‘scripts’ in interviews. Researchers beware! datasociety.net/points/chatb...
Chatbots in Disguise
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“Particularly concerning to me are the comments in that thread where the AIs seem to fall into a pattern of encouraging users to separate from family members who challenge their ideas, and other manipulative instructions…”
"Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity: Insights from the Nordic-Baltic Seminar". Interesting update from Northern European law and policy on legal capacity, including Norway’s Draft Law on Supported Decision-Making.
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Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity: Insights from the Nordic-Baltic Seminar - THL
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combinations of different kinds of coercive measures as well as one-to-one supervision were applied less often. Regarding critical incidences, there were more abscondings, yet their duration was shorter and there were less suicide attempts recorded.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Impact of the Concept of “Open Doors” on Coercive Measures - A Pre-/Post- Comparison
With the intention of reducing restraints and increasing patient autonomy, the “Open Doors” policy (ODP) is an intensely discussed alternative to the …
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New psychiatric coercion study from Western Germany runs a fascinating pre/post comparison of the introduction of an 'open door policy' in one hospital. Findings: 'moderate reduction in coercive measures after the introduction of the ODP... [&] recurrent mechanical restraints...
"We agreed that forms of coercion will need to continue for the foreseeable future and that maybe it will never be possible to eliminate it ... but... we think we should work towards the eventual elimination of coercive treatment, if at all possible."
and behaviours that, far from being the grateful awkward response to the offer of support are raw wild expressions of grief and pain and anger. We do not always seek out help; sometimes all we feel is pain and pain is rarely something that we can easily deal with."
"I have a terrible feeling that some people think that if people were just nice to us and kind and addressed a few inequalities that face us everything would be ok, but we can enter realms where our reality is not amenable to reason and we can find we have emotions ...
A speech by Graham Morgan MBE, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, to the 2023 Mental Health and Diversity Law Conference, is now available online, discussing coercion in mental health services. Powerful then, and I'm very glad it's available now. northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ij...
Reducing Coercion | International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law
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I was sorry to hear the Chief Editor of the Yearbook, Prof Charles Ngwena, passed away in recent weeks. A brief tribute (one among several) for Prof Ngwena has been posted here: law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
In memoriam: Professor Charles Ngwena | Faculty of
It is with great sadness that the Bonavero Institute records the death of Professor Charles Ngwena
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New (open source) book review from me, of Beverley Clough's 2022 monograph, 'The Spaces Of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries (Routledge, 2022)' for the 2024 African Disability Rights Yearbook. adry.up.ac.za/book-review-...
David Clifford and I raised this in concern in 2021: t.co/edqjIHXI32
"… before any further rollout of video monitoring technology is considered, we believe there needs to be significant research undertaken that is independently accredited and co-produced with patients, their carers and families."
“The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the mental health charity Rethink have also said they want to see the rollout of the technology paused.” t.co/dFRF5QoShj
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cq8kqzgel2no
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Really thrilled to have had a book published as a tribute to my work. Thanks @ymaker.bsky.social and @pgooding.bsly.social for your hard work on this! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth
"... Building on the Compendium Report of good practices in the Council of Europe to promote voluntary measures in mental health services". Shameless self plug but I was pleased to see the Committee reference the 2021 report I was commissioned to write. www.coe.int/en/web/human...
Compendium report : Good practices to promote Voluntary Measures in Mental Health Services - Human Rights and Biomedicine - www.coe.int
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Many in the group have endorsed the 2023 draft Recommendation by the CoE Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) on respect for autonomy in mental healthcare: rm.coe.int/cdbio-2023-1... (notwithstanding the bureaucratese, it's worth a look)
Strasbourg, 25 September 2023                                                               CDBIO (2023) 11 REV2
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