Mental Health Alliance
Encyclopedia
The Mental Health Alliance is an organisation composed of between 60 and 75 charities that aims to secure better mental health
legislation.
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
legislation.
Topics of concern
- The threat of compulsory treatment sanctioned under the Mental Health Acts of 1983 and 2007 are too wide.
- Proper care is not guaranteed during the time in which an individual is a formal (unwilling) patient.
- Civil liberties are at risk, as persons can be unwillingly detained.
- Patients who are detained can be forcibly administered treatment without consent.
- Access to care is sometimes ignored.
- Staffing pressures can lead to bad quality care.