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Category Archives: Electroconvulsive therapy
Child mental health row flares
Date: 14/03/2012 Source: The Australian p, 7 Reporter: Sue Dunlevy Synopsis: Leading psychiatrists have criticised as “absurd” and “bizarre”, draft West Australian laws that would require mentally ill children as young as 12 to give their consent to sterilisation, electroconvulsive … Continue reading
New laws to ban shocks on children
Date: 31/07/2011 Reporter: Jill Stark Source: Sunday Age, p. 3 Synopsis: New Mental Health legislation has been drafted in Victoria which would make the use of electric shock therapy on children 12 years and younger illegal. This therapy may still … Continue reading
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