Mental health and the law: Public education day

Public Education day is Sunday 15th March, 2009
At the Hamilton Garden Pavilion Cobham Drive Hamilton
Starting 9.30 am. Welcome and morning tea.

Mental Health And The Law will focus on the real-life intersection between mental health and the law:

We are showing International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology Conference,
“The Conscience of Psychiatry” DVDs
10.00- 11.00

* Human Rights and People with Mental Health Disabilities:
The Issue of Capacity. Robert Dinerstein, J.D.

Robert Dinerstein, JD, professor of law at co-host American University's Washington College of Law, specializing in the Americans with Disabilities Act and the rights of people labeled with mental illness, disability laws in general, homelessness, civil rights, criminal justice, and lawyer-client issues. Robert Dinerstein - 53 minutes

11.00 -11.45
Thomas Bratter, Ed.D., Founder, President, and Primary Clinician of the John Dewey Academy
has over twenty years of practical and teaching experience and published more than
150 articles and four books on treatment and education of bright, oppositional, self-destructive, often drug dependent adolescents. Thomas Bratter - 44 minutes

11.45- 12.15 Lunch

12.15- 1.15
Karen Effrem, M.D., will be speaking on "The Origins and Dangers of Child
Mental Health Screening." The rights of children and adults will be presented as well as how these rights are honored or dishonored in practice. Karen Effram - 57 minutes

The role of science is included in the curriculum as is the role of
alternatives to the traditional, coercive interventions against those
diagnosed with mental illness.

There will also be a two-session program on risk management and privacy for
psychotherapists/counselors who work without drugging patients/clients:

1.15 - 2.00
Susan Stefan, J.D., former professor at University of Miami School of Law and author of Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act and Hollow Promises: Employment Discrimination Against People with Mental Disabilities, as well as numerous articles and chapters on mental health law and disability law. Ms. Stefan will be speaking on "Evolving Legal Views of Psychiatric Evidence." Susan Stefan - 40 minutes

2.00 - 2.36
Tina Minkowitz - 36 minutes

2.36 – 3.00 Afternoon tea

3.00 – 4.00
Plenary Legal Panel Disc 1 - 62 minutes
4.00 –5.00
Plenary Legal Panel Disc 2 - 60 minutes

Lawyers Panel on "Prescription Drugs: Civil and Criminal Liability Cases and
Concepts." High-powered litigation lawyers, Andy Vickery, Don Farber, Michael Mosher and Derek Braslow join Dr. Breggin in a panel discussion of the concepts behind prescription drug litigation and how they have played out in specific important cases.

ENDS

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