A practitioner's guide to the Mental Health Care Act
By: by Adolph A. Landman and Willem J. Landman
Contributors: Landman, Willem J., Author
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Claremont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781485106234
Subjects: Mental health laws; Mentally ill; Commitment and detention; Insanity (Law); South Africa
Description: A practitioner's guide to the mental health care act explains how the South African mental health system works for those who implement the Act, those who administer it and those affected by it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Administration of the Act; title: Care, treatment and rehabilitation; title: Forensic users: Observation, state patients and mentally ill sentenced prisoners; title: Institutions providing protection and redress; title: Assistance and support of other state departments; title: Property of a user and miscellaneous.