Mental Health Law for Health Practitioners
Description: Overview of Relevant Legislation [Health Care Consent Act, Mental Health Act, Substitute Decisions Act]
- Form 1, Application for Psychiatric Assessment: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
- Assessing Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions
- Assessing Capacity to Manage Property
- Involuntary Admissions: the Forms, the Process, the Pitfalls
- Community Treatment Orders: the legal process
- Consent and Capacity Board Hearings: making them less painful
Outcome: Knowledge-based understanding of current letter and spirit of the law on matters of competency, liability and patients’ rights; Answers to questions of participants.
Who this course is for:Health care providers; Physicians and nurses; Emergency care professionals; Chaplains
This course is an unaccredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Unaccredited group learning activities are included under Section 1: Group Learning (unaccredited activities) and qualify for .5 credits per hour.
Since these courses and webinars are unaccredited group learning activities and have not received any industry sponsorship, they can be recorded as unaccredited group learning activities within Section 1 of the MOC Program.
Pricing: $125 per registrant; $99 per person if three or more from one organization, including pre-read material, access to powerpoint slides and/or transcript afterwards.
Instructors:
Mark Handelman was called to the Ontario Bar in 1978. Until 2001, he practiced law in London, Ontario, including civil litigation, criminal defense and prosecution. He was one of Ontario's first members of the Official Guardian Child Representation Program. Mark was appointed to the Consent & Capacity Board in 1998 and became a Vice Chair and Senior Lawyer Member in 2000. He became Acting Toronto Regional Vice Chair and then Regional Vice Chair in 2001, for which he stopped practicing law and moved to Toronto. He was the Board's only Vice Chair for quality assurance and presided at about 2000 Board Hearings—including the majority of the Board’s “end of life” cases. Mark’s term on the Board expired in 2008 and he is now in the private practice of health care law, representing health practitioners, SDMs and patients and advising and teaching health care providers.
