[Download] "Fact Or Fashion? Alberta Adopts the Community Treatment Order" by Health Law Review " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Fact Or Fashion? Alberta Adopts the Community Treatment Order
- Author : Health Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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A decade ago I wrote an article titled "A New Direction in Mental Health Law." (1) The article focused on "Brian's Law," the emotive name given by Ontario's then Conservative government to a major revision of that province's mental health laws. The thrust of Brian's Law was to expand the bases for intervening in the lives of persons with mental illness, including through broadening the criteria for involuntary hospitalization. The particular issue addressed in the article, however, was the introduction into Canadian law of the "community treatment order" (CTO). While forms of CTO had become common among American states (known there as "outpatient committal"), Brian's Law represented an innovation in Canadian mental health law and services. Ten years later, Alberta has introduced the CTO into its legislation. It is the fifth province to do so. (2) What was an innovation just a few years ago now has a track record in several Canadian jurisdictions, as well as in other countries. What may seem surprising is that despite this widespread development, no consensus has emerged concerning how the CTO should be employed, nor whether it serves its intended purposes of maintaining individuals in the community and reducing involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospital facilities. In short, we have no ready answer to the question of whether in adopting the CTO Alberta has joined the vanguard in mental health legislation, or is merely the most recent victim of fashion.
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