Mental Health Law & Consent and Capacity
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
To discuss the roles of the Health Care and Consent Act; Substitute Decisions Makers Act; Mental Health Act.To review Consent and Capacity. How to evaluate Capacity. Beyond the Form 1.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Assess self-care.
- Assess capacity.
- Knowledge of legal issues, the Mental Health Act and when to invoke it: risk to self and others, obligatory reporting; Use of Legal Certification Forms under the Mental Health Act; duty to warn, exceptions to requirement for consent; role of Community Treatment Orders (CTO); capacity and informed consent, right to refuse treatment, exceptions to requirement for consent.
Tags
Basic Sciences
Ethics
C2LEO
Professional
CanMEDS Roles
Medical Expert
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
General MCC Objectives
Law And Ethics
MCC Presentations
Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Consent
Legal system
McMaster Program Competencies
5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations
6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations
MeSH
Ethics [N05.350]
Informed Consent [N03.706.437.650.312]
Mandatory Reporting [I01.880.604.583.080.134.300]
Mental Competency [N03.706.535.625]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Third-Party Consent [N03.706.535.489.635]
