Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Melinda Heath Brents (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Health Law
Time: 4:00p-6:00p T Location: 210
Course Outline: This course will examine issues relating to the role of state and local agencies and the courts in mental health care and treatment. Particular attention will be given to state mental health law, including civil commitment and treatment, and the impact that mental health issues have on criminal procedure (competency, insanity defense); mental health care policy and regulation; and practice issues for attorneys practicing in the area of mental health. Federal statutes impacting mental health issues will be included.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=20
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
No book required for this course
