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This is an example of lesson format we made with BC Children’s Hospital.
It is used as a guide for youth recently certified under the BC Mental Health Act.
The Video Lesson Maker is used as a way of delivery informational content. There are no self-reflections here so the learner text box is turned off.
We took the approach of building up the information in each section into a series of largely non-text based infographics while the narration is happening, and then creating a pause where an image of the infographic appears above the video with hotspots that the viewers can click around in their own time to reinforce the information.

The Mental Health Act Video: Being Certified

Video Index

Welcome

Using this Video

Being Certified

Your Rights

How Long?

De-Certification

Roles

During Your Stay

Conclusion

The Four Criteria for Certification

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Mental Health Act Resources

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Glossary

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1. Certified

The Mental Health Act is a BC law that gives the reasons a person can be kept in the hospital against their will for mental health treatment of a mental disorder. This is called being “certified under the Mental Health Act.”

2. Criteria for certification

1) You have a serious mental health disorder that keeps you from dealing with situations or people around you safely;
2) You need medical treatment for the mental health disorder.
3) You need help in a hospital setting to stop the mental health disorder from getting worse or to stop you from hurting yourself or others;
4) You do not ask for this help voluntarily. And, you can’t be admitted voluntarily in case you refuse treatment or try to leave.

3. Doctor

Only a doctor (physician) licensed to practise medicine in British Columbia may certify a person under the Mental Health Act. The doctor does not have to be a psychiatrist.

4. Mental disorder

This term has specific legal meaning under the Mental Health Act. “Mental Disorder” is specifically defined in Section 1 of the Act as:

a disorder of the mind that requires treatment and seriously impairs the person's ability

(a)to react appropriately to the person's environment, or
(b)to associate with others.

5. Mental Health Review Board

An organization that coordinates Review Panel Hearings.

6. Mental Health Review Panel

For the purposes of a Review Panel Hearing, a review panel consists of the following persons:

a) a lawyer,
b) a doctor (a different doctor than the one on your treatment team), and
c) someone from the community.

7. Mental Health Review Panel Hearing

The Mental Health Review Board conducts hearings to review and decide whether persons certified should continue to be certified based on criteria in the act. People who are involved and present at the hearing include:

-the person (you) who is certified,
-the panel (see point #6 above),
-your treating doctor who is on your treatment team,
-and a lawyer or legal advocate.

A lawyer can give you legal information and advice, and help guide you through this process. Family may also be present.

https://www.bcmhrb.ca/i-am-a-patient/

8. Rights Under the Mental Health Act

You have the right:

• to know where you are, including the name and address of the hospital;
• to know why you have to stay;
• to speak to a lawyer. A lawyer is a person who can give you legal advice about your rights as a certified patient;
• to speak with a doctor regularly to check if you still meet the criteria for certification;
• to ask for another doctor’s opinion about your treatment.
• And, to ask for what is called a review panel hearing if you don’t agree with the doctor’s decision to certify you.

9. Treatment

Medical treatment related to the mental health issue, and includes medical tests such as bloodwork. Other examples include:

• talking one on one with staff or in a group
•working on challenges with your parents or other people in your life
• taking medication
• and practising what you are learning

Activities that May Help

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Mental Health Act Forms

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