Mental Health Act Overview

<p>To promote and protect the rights of people who require mental health services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To comply strictly with its obligations under international and regional human rights conventions and declarations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The applicability of Republic Act No. 7277 to people with mental health conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to exercise the full range of human rights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Addiction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make mental health care timely, affordable, high-quality, and culturally-appropriate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person who maintains a close personal relationship with the patient</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To keep information from unauthorized persons or entities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moving service users from institutional settings to community-based settings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any distinction, exclusion or restriction that nullifies human rights and fundamental freedoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enabling patients to confront the consequences of addiction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A medically-determined inability to provide informed consent</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect the rights of persons with decision-making impairment capacity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide mental health services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mental health professional</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Full disclosure of treatment information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A recognizable, clinically-significant disturbance in mental functioning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person designated by the service user or appointed by a court</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Realizing one's own abilities and potentials, and making a positive contribution to the community</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scientifically-accepted medical nomenclature and best available scientific and medical evidence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A medical doctor, psychologist, nurse, social worker, or any other appropriately-trained and qualified person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An entity or individual providing mental health services, whether public or private</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition presenting a serious and immediate threat to the health and well-being of a service user or any other person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A trained person, volunteer, or advocate engaged in mental health promotion, providing support services under the supervision of a mental health professional</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach centered on the strengths of a service user, involving active participation of persons with lived experiences in mental health</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person with lived experience of any mental health condition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spectrum of informal and formal arrangements or services of varying types and intensities, provided by the State, private entities, or communities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The act of assisting a service user who is not affected by an impairment or loss of decision-making capacity, in expressing a mental health-related preference, intention or decision</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition that indicates the existence of dysfunctions in a person's behavior, thoughts and feelings brought about by sudden extreme, prolonged or cumulative stressors in the physical or social environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Psychosocial, psychiatric, or neurologic activities and programs along the whole range of mental health support services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedom from social, economic, and political discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Evidence-based treatment of the same standard and quality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a life-threatening emergency exists</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humane treatment free from solitary confinement, torture, and other forms of cruel inhumane, harmful or degrading treatment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to give informed consent before receiving treatment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To achieve the highest attainable standard of mental health</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to confidentiality of their information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Access to mental health services without discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to participate in policy planning and legislation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To promote social reintegration and inclusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supporters and mental health professionals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To expeditiously review all cases, disputes, and controversies involving the treatment, restraint or confinement of service users</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>During psychiatric or neurologic emergencies, or when there is impairment or temporary loss of decision-making capacity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing and integrating responsive primary mental health services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To assist in the operation and fund the establishment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of patients/service users attended to, the respective kinds of mental illness or disability, duration and result of the treatment, and patients/users' age, gender, educational attainment and employment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intervention, prevention, and response strategies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drug screening services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Policies and programs for students, educators, and employees</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Providing psychiatric, psychosocial, and neurologic services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Delivering evidence-based, gender-sensitive, culturally appropriate and human rights-oriented mental health services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide appropriate mental health care services and enhance the rights-based approach to mental health care</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disseminating information and providing training programs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide mental health services and protect the rights of service users</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To respect the service user's autonomy and self-determination</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free and informed consent of participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Raising public awareness on mental health and rights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any service user, regardless of their mental health condition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Policies and programs on mental health issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To express preferences for treatment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The service user, unless revealing such information would cause harm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying and providing support for individuals at risk</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To receive support in making decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formulating and developing a culturally relevant national mental health program</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing policies and programs on mental health issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At any time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To send and receive uncensored private communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The service user or their legal representative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To receive legal services from a competent counsel of their choice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At the time of admission to a mental health facility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop interventions on mental and neurological services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To achieve the policy and objectives of this Act</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To investigate human rights violations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop programs for mental health education and training</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop programs for mental health in the workplace</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop programs for mental health and social welfare</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To establish or upgrade hospitals and health care facilities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To oversee the implementation of this Act</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fifteen days after publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two newspapers of general circulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They will be modified, suspended, or repealed accordingly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To inspect mental health care institutions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To address psychiatric emergencies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rodrigo Roa Duterte</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The consolidation of Senate Bill No. 1354 and House Bill 6452</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of Senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>30 days</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Department of Health</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide treatment and rehabilitation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imprisonment of not less than 6 months, but not more than 2 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>120 days</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To determine the budget for mental health</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The remaining provisions not affected continue to be in full force and effect</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Strategic plan formulated by the Council</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To support the National Mental Health Program</p> Signup and view all the answers