BC MENTAL HEALTH RIGHTS

This project was motivated by a 2011 survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health, where 43% of respondents who had been certified as involuntary patients reported that they had not been told their rights in a way they could understand... The research team's aims were to create patient-centred materials to help patients better understand their rights and to encourage clinicians to foster a culture where patients feel safe to talk about their rights... The rights materials on this site were created by the Mental Health Act Rights Advice (MHARA) research team, which formed in fall 2017 at Simon Fraser University (SFU).