Includes table of cases. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Legal issues regarding refugees and mental illness / Jamie Chai Yun Liew. Fragmented law & fragmented lives : Canada's mental health care system / Colleen M. Flood, Bryan Thomas -- The UN Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities and its impact on mental health law and policy in Canada / Steven J. Hoffman, Lathika Sritharan, Ali Tejpar -- Consent to psychiatric treatment: from insight (into illness) to incite (a riot) / Sheila Wildeman -- Involuntary hospitalization and treatment: themes and controversies / Sophie Nunnelly -- Community treatment orders / John Dawson -- Privacy protection and the confidentiality of psychiatric health care records / Elaine Gibson -- Malpractice and mental health care / Louise BeĢlanger-Hardy -- The governance of the safety and efficacy of psychopharmaceuticals: challenges and opportunities for reform / Trudo Lemmens, C. Tess Sheldon -- Advocating for persons with mental health problems: living up to the challenges of the 21st century / H. Archibald Kaiser -- Mental health, treatment and the criminal justice process / Glen Luther -- Mental health courts and diversion programs / Richard D. Schneider, Anne G. Crocker, Marichelle C. Leclair -- Policing mental health disabilities / Robin Whitehead -- Mental health services in Canadian corrections / Simon Verdun-Jones, Amanda Butler -- Mental health law for the old: defining the category, identifying the issues / Margaret Isabel Hall -- Mental health law and children / Angela Campbell, Beth Mountford -- Indigenous peoples and mental health: the role of law and policy / Constance MacIntosh -- Race, culture and ethnicity in mental health law and policy / Ruby Dhand -- Legal issues regarding refugees and mental illness / Jamie Chai Yun Liew.
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