Piers Gooding
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers Gooding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers |
| FAMILY NAME | Gooding |
| SIGNATURE | GOODING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5743-5708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Effectiveness of Mentoring for Improving Lived Experience Engagement in Research
Lived experience engagement is becoming a growing expectation in research. However, in the higher education sector, academic researchers and teaching staff may lack the skills and confidence to engage lived experience experts. This study is an evaluation of a mentoring program for staff at an Australian university developed in order to build capacity to engage lived experience experts in teaching and research. The program paired staff who wished …
A human rights indicator for the mental health context
Since the introduction of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), there have been calls to develop standards for evaluating compliance and implementation. Human rights 'indicators' are a recognized, if somewhat contested, way to measure states' compliance with human rights treaties. The additional CRPD requirement for active involvement of people with disabilities in monitoring and implementation has sparked efforts towa…
Abolition
INTRODUCTION: Mental health legislation authorises involuntary psychiatric intervention in certain circumstances. Although human rights concerns are becoming more prominent, debates among legal experts, clinicians and activists continue to swirl around people's rights to equal recognition before the law, such as described in the (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities, 2006). AIM: This qualitative descriptive study a…
Is anti-ligature an automatic requirement for suicide prevention
Around the world, peer-run, bed-based services that offer voluntary support to people experiencing mental health crisis are emerging as alternatives to hospital-based mental healthcare. In Victoria, Australia, where these 'alternative crisis services' are expanding, a key legal question has arisen: must non-coercive settings adopt the suicide prevention architectural design (or 'anti-ligature design') mandated in psychiatric wards under negligenc…
Regulating digital mental health services in Australia
Digital mental health services in Australia have grown rapidly since the COVID‐19 pandemic and continue to attract public and private investment. Yet, ambiguity remains about which regulatory bodies are responsible for addressing the ‘significant risks’ noted in Australia's National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards. These risks include threats to privacy, safety, and data security. This Practice and Policy note makes recommendat…
Digital futures in mind
Digital mental health technologies and services are here. More are coming. Such technologies and services present both risks and opportunities. At their best, they may enhance the most humane, communal and caring parts of our social systems and communities. At their worst, they may reinforce reductionist approaches to distress and crisis, increase surveillance and control, as well as extracting data and wealth from people seeking care. In this pa…
Disability assessments and the algorithmic veil
Standardised approaches to disability assessment or social security eligibility are not new. However, experiments in novel algorithmic approaches to assessment are beginning to appear. This article examines a proposed algorithmic assessment—dubbed ‘independent assessments’—under Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (‘NDIS’), which sought to narrow and standardise eligibility criteria for the Scheme. The proposal was ultimately abandon…
Psychiatry and law in the digital age
The economic case for improving legal outcomes for accused persons with cognitive disability
People with cognitive disabilities face specific forms of discrimination and disadvantage in the criminal justice system, including in legal proceedings. While unfitness-to-stand-trial provisions are intended to assist in avoiding unfair trials, in application, such laws can exacerbate disadvantage. A recent research project sought to increase the participation of accused persons with cognitive disabilities in legal proceedings by developing, imp…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
Human Rights and Unfitness to Plead
Findings of unfitness to plead can result in individuals with cognitive disabilities losing access to procedural safeguards in the criminal justice system. They can also lead to long periods of detention and, in some cases, indefinite detention of persons with cognitive disabilities in prisons and other secure facilities. This raises significant concerns with human rights breaches, including the rights to legal capacity, a fair trial and liberty.…
The government is the cause of the disease and we are stuck with the symptoms’
The deinstitutionalization of mental health services in Australia happened first and most rapidly in the state of Victoria. In the final decades of the 20th Century, a period of immense economic and social policy reform accelerated this shift. Policy change appeared to be guided, at least in part, by ideals of human rights and citizenship. However, these same principles could be undermined in the vacuum of services created by deinstitutionalizati…
From deinstitutionalisation to consumer empowerment
The paper presents an historical critical policy analysis of deinstitutionalisation and the introduction of neoliberal forms of governance in mental health policy. It focuses particularly on a major period of policy reform in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia. Many of the particularities of the Victorian experience can be generally observed with deinstitutionalisation throughout the world. In particular, the policy discourse of rights an…
Laws on unfitness to stand trial and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Navigating the 'Flashing Amber Lights' of the Right to Legal Capacity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
In recent years, the enumeration of the right to legal capacity in the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has caused considerable controversy. The adoption of General Comment No. 1 by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD Committee’) in April 2014 sheds new light on major debates in the field, particularly regarding implementation measures to fulfill the obligation of Stat…
From deinstitutionalisation to consumer empowerment
The paper presents an historical critical policy analysis of deinstitutionalisation and the introduction of neoliberal forms of governance in mental health policy. It focuses particularly on a major period of policy reform in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia. Many of the particularities of the Victorian experience can be generally observed with deinstitutionalisation throughout the world. In particular, the policy discourse of rights an…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
The government is the cause of the disease and we are stuck with the symptoms’
The deinstitutionalization of mental health services in Australia happened first and most rapidly in the state of Victoria. In the final decades of the 20th Century, a period of immense economic and social policy reform accelerated this shift. Policy change appeared to be guided, at least in part, by ideals of human rights and citizenship. However, these same principles could be undermined in the vacuum of services created by deinstitutionalizati…
Navigating the 'Flashing Amber Lights' of the Right to Legal Capacity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
In recent years, the enumeration of the right to legal capacity in the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has caused considerable controversy. The adoption of General Comment No. 1 by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD Committee’) in April 2014 sheds new light on major debates in the field, particularly regarding implementation measures to fulfill the obligation of Stat…
Laws on unfitness to stand trial and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Laws on unfitness to stand trial and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Navigating the 'Flashing Amber Lights' of the Right to Legal Capacity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
In recent years, the enumeration of the right to legal capacity in the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has caused considerable controversy. The adoption of General Comment No. 1 by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD Committee’) in April 2014 sheds new light on major debates in the field, particularly regarding implementation measures to fulfill the obligation of Stat…
From deinstitutionalisation to consumer empowerment
The paper presents an historical critical policy analysis of deinstitutionalisation and the introduction of neoliberal forms of governance in mental health policy. It focuses particularly on a major period of policy reform in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia. Many of the particularities of the Victorian experience can be generally observed with deinstitutionalisation throughout the world. In particular, the policy discourse of rights an…
Human Rights and Unfitness to Plead
Findings of unfitness to plead can result in individuals with cognitive disabilities losing access to procedural safeguards in the criminal justice system. They can also lead to long periods of detention and, in some cases, indefinite detention of persons with cognitive disabilities in prisons and other secure facilities. This raises significant concerns with human rights breaches, including the rights to legal capacity, a fair trial and liberty.…
The government is the cause of the disease and we are stuck with the symptoms’
The deinstitutionalization of mental health services in Australia happened first and most rapidly in the state of Victoria. In the final decades of the 20th Century, a period of immense economic and social policy reform accelerated this shift. Policy change appeared to be guided, at least in part, by ideals of human rights and citizenship. However, these same principles could be undermined in the vacuum of services created by deinstitutionalizati…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
The economic case for improving legal outcomes for accused persons with cognitive disability
People with cognitive disabilities face specific forms of discrimination and disadvantage in the criminal justice system, including in legal proceedings. While unfitness-to-stand-trial provisions are intended to assist in avoiding unfair trials, in application, such laws can exacerbate disadvantage. A recent research project sought to increase the participation of accused persons with cognitive disabilities in legal proceedings by developing, imp…
Psychiatry and law in the digital age
Disability assessments and the algorithmic veil
Standardised approaches to disability assessment or social security eligibility are not new. However, experiments in novel algorithmic approaches to assessment are beginning to appear. This article examines a proposed algorithmic assessment—dubbed ‘independent assessments’—under Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (‘NDIS’), which sought to narrow and standardise eligibility criteria for the Scheme. The proposal was ultimately abandon…
Digital futures in mind
Digital mental health technologies and services are here. More are coming. Such technologies and services present both risks and opportunities. At their best, they may enhance the most humane, communal and caring parts of our social systems and communities. At their worst, they may reinforce reductionist approaches to distress and crisis, increase surveillance and control, as well as extracting data and wealth from people seeking care. In this pa…
Regulating digital mental health services in Australia
Digital mental health services in Australia have grown rapidly since the COVID‐19 pandemic and continue to attract public and private investment. Yet, ambiguity remains about which regulatory bodies are responsible for addressing the ‘significant risks’ noted in Australia's National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards. These risks include threats to privacy, safety, and data security. This Practice and Policy note makes recommendat…
Effectiveness of Mentoring for Improving Lived Experience Engagement in Research
Lived experience engagement is becoming a growing expectation in research. However, in the higher education sector, academic researchers and teaching staff may lack the skills and confidence to engage lived experience experts. This study is an evaluation of a mentoring program for staff at an Australian university developed in order to build capacity to engage lived experience experts in teaching and research. The program paired staff who wished …
A human rights indicator for the mental health context
Since the introduction of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), there have been calls to develop standards for evaluating compliance and implementation. Human rights 'indicators' are a recognized, if somewhat contested, way to measure states' compliance with human rights treaties. The additional CRPD requirement for active involvement of people with disabilities in monitoring and implementation has sparked efforts towa…
Abolition
INTRODUCTION: Mental health legislation authorises involuntary psychiatric intervention in certain circumstances. Although human rights concerns are becoming more prominent, debates among legal experts, clinicians and activists continue to swirl around people's rights to equal recognition before the law, such as described in the (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities, 2006). AIM: This qualitative descriptive study a…
Is anti-ligature an automatic requirement for suicide prevention
Around the world, peer-run, bed-based services that offer voluntary support to people experiencing mental health crisis are emerging as alternatives to hospital-based mental healthcare. In Victoria, Australia, where these 'alternative crisis services' are expanding, a key legal question has arisen: must non-coercive settings adopt the suicide prevention architectural design (or 'anti-ligature design') mandated in psychiatric wards under negligenc…
Political science (10 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Convention (4 works)