Oct 03, 2024  
JFK School of Law at National University - Spring 2024 
    
JFK School of Law at National University - Spring 2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAW-551 - Mental Health Law

Semester Credits: 2 Weeks: 10

Mental Health Law covers three complex and interrelated areas, and like most areas of law, include science, politics, regulation, individual liberty, and the application of concepts associated with those areas. The delivery of mental health services, the regulation of mental health professions, and the relationship between society and people with specific and general mental disorders, all intersect to various degrees with the legal system. Understanding these complex relationships and how these issues are understood within the courts, legislatures, and mental health professions is best characterized as tense and often includes competing and layered interests, some of which are conflicted. In this course, we will be discussing and addressing key considerations and controversies across those concepts.



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