A Practical Guide to the UAE Mental Health Law, 2023 - Softcover

Abdel-Maksoud, Mohamed ; Qassem, Tareq ; AlMansoori, Mona ; Alabrach, Noura ; Bokhari, Syed Ali

9798181681316: A Practical Guide to the UAE Mental Health Law, 2023

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ISBN 13: 9798181681316

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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A practical, pathway-led guide to the United Arab Emirates Mental Health Law, 2023.

This guide explains Federal Law No. (10) of 2023, its Executive Regulations, the implementing Ministerial Decisions, and the sixteen designated mental health forms, and shows how they work together in day-to-day clinical practice. It is organised around the sequence in which a patient actually encounters services, from emergency access and admission pathways through treatment, consent, restraint, leave, transfer, discharge, complaints, and review.

Rather than restating the legislation article by article, it brings together, for each clinical decision, the relevant form, the clinician in whom legal authority is vested, what must be documented, the time limits that apply, and the persons who must be notified.

Inside the guide

Emergency access, police and ambulance powers, and early holding provisions
Compulsory admission for assessment and for treatment, and compulsory outpatient care
Consent, emergency treatment, and the thresholds and safeguards for restraint and isolation
Leave, referral, safe transfer, discharge, and death notification
Patient rights, complaints, confidentiality, and protected populations
All sixteen forms cross-referenced to the relevant articles, with summaries of the Law, Regulations, and Decisions
Time-limits-at-a-glance tables, a teaching scenario bank, and an Arabic to English glossary of key terms

Written for psychiatrists, treating physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, social service specialists, and occupational therapists, as well as the emergency, ambulance, and police services that bring patients into care, and suitable for multidisciplinary teaching.

Prepared by psychiatrists involved in the clinical implementation of the Law at Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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