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    The document discusses the history and provisions of the Philippine Mental Health Act of 2018. It establishes rights-based legislation for mental healthcare, mandating psychiatric and community-based services. The Act protects patient rights like freedom from discrimination and informed consent. It also recognizes the roles of mental health professionals and families in treatment. Additionally, it seeks to integrate mental health into the educational system.

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    The document discusses the history and provisions of the Philippine Mental Health Act of 2018. It establishes rights-based legislation for mental healthcare, mandating psychiatric and community-based services. The Act protects patient rights like freedom from discrimination and informed consent. It also recognizes the roles of mental health professionals and families in treatment. Additionally, it seeks to integrate mental health into the educational system.

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    MENTAL HEALTH

    HISTORY
    MENTAL HEALTH
    • MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY ETC.
    • The first mental health act legislation in the history
    of the Philippines has been officially signed into law
    and was enacted as the Republic Act no. 11036 on
    21 June 2018. It provides a rights-based mental
    health bill and a comprehensive framework for the
    implementation of optimal mental healthcare in
    the Philippines.
    • It provides a rights-based mental health
    legislation. It mandates for the provision of
    psychiatric, psychosocial and neurological
    services in all hospitals, and basic mental health
    services in community settings. Compulsory
    treatment is limited to hospital settings, and the
    Act does not provide for compulsory community
    treatment.
    • PHILIPPINE MENTAL HEALTH ACT PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF PATIENTS AS
    FOLLOWS:
    • right to freedom from discrimination
    • right to protection from torture, cruel, inhumane, and degrading
    treatment
    • right to aftercare and rehabilitation
    • right to be adequately informed about psychosocial and clinical
    assessments
    • right to participate in the treatment plan to be implemented; right to
    evidence-based or informed consent
    • right to confidentiality
    • right to counsel, among others’.
    • The Act also incorporates rights for ‘concerned individuals’,
    incorporating patient relatives and mental health
    professionals. In this context, a mental health professional
    refers to a medical doctor, psychologist, nurse, social
    worker or any other appropriately-trained and qualified
    person with specific skills relevant to the provision of
    mental health services (section 4 of the Act). The Act
    highlights the need to provide psychosocial support to family
    members of the patient if required and, with informed
    patient consent, to include them in the planning of
    treatment for the patient.
    • It further recognizes the role of mental health
    professionals, protecting their right to participate in mental
    health planning and development of services, and ensuring
    that they have a safe working environment, access to
    continuing education and autonomy in their own practice.
    Additionally, and with some foresight, the Act seeks to
    integrate mental health into the educational system by
    promoting mental health programs in schools and other
    organisations.
    HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CENTER
    FOR MENTAL HEALTH ( NCMH)
    • The National Center for Mental Health is dedicated to
    delivering preventive, curative and rehabilitative
    mental health care services. It is categorized as Special
    Research Training Center and Hospital under
    Department of Health on January 30, 1987. It has an
    authorized bed capacity of 4,200 inpatients and
    served an average of 56,000 outpatients per year.
    • NCMH was established in 1925 through Public Works
    Act 3258. It was formally opened on December 17,
    1928 and was originally called the INSULAR
    PSYCHOPATIC HOSPITAL. It was later called the
    National Mental Hospital. On November 12, 1986, it
    was renamed NATIONAL CENTER FOR MENTAL
    HEALTH (NCMH) through Memorandum Circular No.
    48 issued by the Office of the President.

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