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  • 1

    Chapter 01 Preliminary

    • Section 1. Short title, extent, and commencement

    • Section 2. Definitions

  • 2

    Chapter 02 Establishment of Federal Mental Health Authority

    • Section 3. Federal Mental Health Authority

    • Section 4. Constitution of the Board of Visitors

    • Section 5. Powers and functions of the Board

    • Section 6. Establishment of psychiatric facilities by the Government

  • 3

    Chapter 03 Assessment and Treatment

    • Section 7. Care in the Community

    • Section 8. Care and Treatment on an informal or voluntary basis

    • Section 9. Duration for periods of detention for assessment, treatment, urgent admission, and emergency holding

    • Section 10. Admission for assessment

    • Section 11. Admission for treatment

    • Section 12. Admission for assessment in cases of urgency

    • Section 13. Emergency Holding

    • Section 14. Emergency Powers

    • Section 15. Application by Whom to Be Presented

    • Section 16. Effect of Application for Admission

    • Section 17. General provisions as to applications and medical recommendations

    • Section 18. Rectification of applications and recommendations

    • Section 19. Mentally disordered persons found in public places

  • 4

    Chapter 04 Leave and Discharge

    • Section 20. Order of leave

    • Section 21. Discharge of a patient

    • Section 22. Application by a patient for discharge.

    • Section 23. Discharge of a detained person found not to be mentally disordered after Assessment

    • Section 24. Duty of hospital management to inform relatives of the discharge

    • Section 25. Application for discharge to Magistrate

    • Section 26. Notice about serious illness or death

    • Section 27. Transfer and removal

    • Section 28. Foreign nationals

  • 5

    Chapter 05 Judicial Proceedings

    • Section 29. Judicial proceedings

    • Section 30. Regulation of proceedings of the Court of Protection

    • Section 31. Inquiry by subordinate Court on commission issued by the Court of Protection and proceedings thereon

    • Section 32. Appointment of guardian

    • Section 33. Management of property of a mentally disordered person

    • Section 34. Responsibility of the manager

    • Section 35. The allowance payable to the guardian

    • Section 36. Powers of the manager of the property of the mentally disordered person

    • Section 37. Furnishing an inventory of immovable property, etc.

    • Section 38. Inquiry by Court of Protection in certain cases

    • Section 39. Disposal of business premises under the direction of Court of Protection

    • Section 40. Investment of assets of a mentally disordered person

    • Section 41. Appointment of a new manager or guardian

    • Section 42. Dissolution of partnership

    • Section 43. Securities, etc., of a mentally disordered person

    • Section 44. Maintenance during temporary mental disorder

    • Section 45. Inquiry by Court of Protection into a cessation of mental disorder

    • Section 46. Appeal to High Court

  • 6

    Chapter 06 Liability to Meet Cost

    • Section 47. Liability to meet the cost of maintenance of a patient admitted in a psychiatric facility

    • Section 48. Maintenance out of pay, pension, etc.

  • 7

    Chapter 07 Protection of Human Rights

    • Section 49. Cases of attempted suicide.

    • Section 50. Confidentiality

    • Section 51. Informed consent.

  • 8

    Chapter 08 Offences And Indemnity

    • Section 52. Penalty for making a false statement

    • Section 53. Indemnity

  • 9

    Chapter 09 Inspection of Mental Disordered Prisoners

    • Section 54. Inspection of mentally disordered prisoners

  • 10

    Chapter 10 Forensic Psychiatric Services

    • Section 55. Forensic psychiatric services

  • 11

    Chapter 11 Miscellaneous

    • Section 56. Specialized Psychiatric Treatments

    • Section 57. Provisions for public and private sector psychiatric facilities.

    • Section 58. Removal of difficulties

    • Section 59. Power to Make Rules

    • Section 60. Ordinance to override

    • Section 61. Repeal and saving

  • 12

    Forensic Psychiatry

    • Infanticide

    • Subtance Abuse

    • Forensic Psychiatry- Areas under

    • What a forensic psychiatrist needs to know

    • Ethical Issues in FrPsych

    • Ethical Issues in FrPsych

    • General Criminology

    • General Criminology

    • General Criminology

    • Crime Research

    • Victims of Crime

    • Psychosocial Causes

    • Association between Mental Illness and Crime

    • The nature of association

    • Learning Disability

    • Mood disorder

    • Mood disorder

    • Mood disorder

    • Mood disorder

    • Schizophrenia and related

    • Pathological jealousy

    • Delirium

    • PTSD

    • Specific Offender Groups

    • Psychiatric Aspects of Specific Crimes

    • Crimes of Violence

    • Homicide

    • Normal and Abnormal Homicide

    • Multiple Homicide

    • Multiple Homicide

    • Multiple Homicide

    • Homicide followed by Suicide

    • Family Homicide

    • Domestic Violence

    • Sexually Violent offences

    • Role of the psychiatrist in the criminal courts

    • Mental state, intention and responsibility

    • Children

    • Children

    • Competence to Stand trial

    • Advice on medical treatment

    • The role of psychiatrist

    • The assessment

    • Automatism

    • Assessment of murders

    • Diminished responsibility

    • Treatment of offenders with Mental Illness

    • The psychiatric report

    • Setting

    • Preparing the report

    • Headings for the court report

    • Appearing in court

    • Psychiatric aspects of being victim

    • Psychological impact

    • Rape

    • Burglary and robbery

    • Murder

    • Terrorist crimes

    • Terrorist crimes

    • Management

    • Legal insanity

    • Legal insanity

    • Infanticide

    • Fitness to be punished

  • 13

    Psychiatry Related Laws in Pakistan

  • 14

    Short-Answer Questions with Answers

    • SAQs on Mental health Act

    • SAQs on Forensic Psychiatry