Mental Health Law
Mental Health Law introduces cases, statutes, and legal doctrines regarding the rights, treatment, and incarceration of mentally ill persons.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2006: 2.70 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Identify and explain the complex intersection between the law and mental health issues
Develop an understanding of the role of lawyers when there are criminal/civil issues involving mental health problems
Explore several specific nettlesome psycho-legal topics and evaluate how the legal system reaches dispositions in these areas
Develop a deeper and more realistic understanding of mental health law issues, with regard to how lawyers work inside and around the clinical paradigm in their representation of clients - i.e., mental health evaluation and treatment
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2006: 2.70 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
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Topics
- Involuntary civil commitment, psychiatric hospital history, competency to stand trial, and insanity defense evaluations
- Moral panics, right to refuse treatment, psychotropic medicine effectiveness, and dangerousness
- Social science research on memory and juries, juvenile treatment, and mental health system regulation
- Confidentiality, duty to protect, policing functions, and lawyer mental health
Skills
- Identify and explain the intersection of law and mental health issues
- Evaluate how the legal system reaches dispositions in psycho-legal topics
- Understand lawyer roles within the clinical paradigm of mental health evaluation and treatment
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