Legal Issues in Mental Health in Ontario Online Course

Course Session Begins: October 5, 2009

This seven-week course provides an understanding of key legal issues in mental health and addiction care in Ontario, in the context of clinical, ethical. organizational and systemic factors.  Health care practitioners must be constantly mindful of their legal obligations -- including admission, treatment, discharge and health records -- in order to respond effectively to clients' rights and empower them to make their own health care decisions.

The course will cover:

• mental health care in a multi-dimensional context
• legislation governing mental health care in Ontario
• addiction to a psychiatric facility
• treatment in a psychiatric facility
• the Ontario Consent and Capacity Board
• discharge and community treatment orders
• privacy, confidentiality and the duty to warn/report.

Faculty

• Jennifer Euringer Foster, lawyer, course author, external advisor

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