Mental Healthcare ActMental illnessRights of person with mental illness"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease."-WHO (Constitution of the World Health OrganizationSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
There is no health without mental health. Recently conducted National Mental Health Survey quoted a prevalence of 13.7% lifetime and 10.6% current mental morbidity. To address this mammoth problem, an aspirational law was enacted titled “Mental Healthcare Act, 2017” (MHCA 201...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017. It analysis the Act in accordance with the CRPD and the WHO standards for mental health law. It examines the balance between complying with CRPD to deliver practical, h
Massive public awareness programs need to be conducted to enable persons who attempted to die by suicide, to access mental healthcare as per the provisions of the MHCA 2017. 展开 关键词: Attempted suicide Mental Healthcare Act 2017 suicide ...
India is revising its mental health legislation with the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 (IMHA). When implemented, this legislation will apply to over 1.25 billion people. In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a Resource Book (WHO-RB) on mental health, human rights and legi...
Mental HealthCare Act 2017: It guarantees every affected person access to mental healthcare and treatment from services run or funded by the government. It has significantly reduced the scope for the use of Section 309 IPC and made the attempt to commit suicide punishable only as an exception....
"I was too afraid to take up too much space in other people's minds, other people's lives," explains the mental health first-aider. "The people who really care for you will never think that you're too much." She says the first step should be to validate your own feelin...
Most countries with national mental health programs have emphasized deinstitutionalization, community-based care, and intersectoral collaboration. At times these programs also lend support to other specific populations (e.g., children and adolescents, the elderly, refugees, indigenous people); specific ...
IV.Summary Consideration of cultural factors in psychotherapy is being addressed by the differentmental health organizations. It is receiving greater recognition inDSM-IV-TRwhere it is discussed both in the Appendix and as a subheading under the different disorders. The mental health field has respond...
Plasticity can act to reorganize either the structure or the function of neurons and is necessary not only for neural networks to acquire new capabilities, but also for them to remain robust and stable over time. A key element of plasticity revolves around the temporal coincidence of activity. ...