Mental health law

Mental health law includes a wide variety of legal topics and pertain to people with a diagnosis or possible diagnosis of a mental health condition, and to those involved in managing or treating such people. Laws that relate to mental health include:employment laws, including laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of a mental health condition, require reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and provide mental health-related leave; insurance laws, including laws governing mental health coverage by medical insurance plans, disability insurance, workers compensation, and Social Security Disability Insurance; housing laws, including housing discrimination and zoning; education laws, including laws that prohibit discrimination, and laws that require reasonable accommodations, equal access to programs and services, and free appropriate public education; laws that provide a right to treatment; involuntary commitment and guardianship laws; laws governing treatment professionals, including licensing laws, confidentiality, informed consent, and medical malpractice; laws governing admission of expert testimony or other psychiatric evidence in court; and criminal laws, including laws governing fitness for trial or execution, and the insanity defense.

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