Mental health and the law: a South African perspective

Mental health law in South Africa has been dominated in recent times by the Mental Health Care Act 2002. This paper provides selective insights into specific aspects of that Act and highlights its impact on clinical practice within a broad clinical setting and in so doing suggests areas for review a...

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Autores principales: Szabo, Christopher Paul, Kaliski, Sean Zalman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017
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Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093950
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spelling pubmed-56189042017-11-01 Mental health and the law: a South African perspective Szabo, Christopher Paul Kaliski, Sean Zalman BJPsych Int Mental Health Law Profile Mental health law in South Africa has been dominated in recent times by the Mental Health Care Act 2002. This paper provides selective insights into specific aspects of that Act and highlights its impact on clinical practice within a broad clinical setting and in so doing suggests areas for review and revision. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5618904/ /pubmed/29093950 Text en © 2017 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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