Sentences with phrase «forced psychiatric treatment»
Vancouver, BC [September 13, 2016]-- Two individuals and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities filed a legal action in the BC Supreme Court today to challenge a BC law that forces psychiatric treatment on people without their consent.
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As one prominent psychologist has argued, «Forced treatment for people with mental illness has had a long and abusive history, both here in the United States and throughout the world (read our related «Beyond the Book» about controversial psychiatric practices).
14 (1) Where an institution for the reception, treatment or vocational training of persons who have served or are serving in the Canadian Forces or who are disabled, a hospital, a psychiatric facility, a long - term care home or other institution of twenty beds or more, in which chronically ill or infirm persons reside or where a retirement home of fifty beds or more is situate in an electoral district, a polling place shall be provided in such institution or upon the premises.
A. the exclusive right to consent to medical, dental, and surgical treatment involving invasive procedures and to consent to psychiatric and psychological treatment of the child; B. the right to represent the child in legal action and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance concerning the child; C. the right to consent to marriage and to enlistment in the armed forces of the United States; D. the right to make decisions concerning the child's education; E. the right to the services and earnings of the child; F. except when a guardian of the child's estate or a guardian or attorney ad litem has been appointed for the child, the right to act as an agent of the child in relation to the child's estate if the child's action is required by a state, the United States, or a foreign government; G. the duty to manage the estate of the child to the extent the estate has been created by community property or the joint property of the parents.
A sole managing conservator has the exclusive right to decide where the children live, consent to invasive medical or dental procedures, consent to psychiatric or psychological treatment, decide about the children's education, consent to marriage or enlistment in the armed forces, and the right to receive child support.