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Mental health law in Qatar

Part of: BJPsych International Mental Health Law Profile Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mohammed T. Abou-Saleh  and
Mohamed Abdelalaim Ibrahim
Mohammed T. Abou-Saleh
Affiliation:
Naufar (Qatar Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre), Doha, Qatar St George's, University of London, UK, email mabousal@sgul.ac.uk
Mohamed Abdelalaim Ibrahim
Affiliation:
Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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This article provides a brief outline of mental health services in Qatar, historical notes on the use of informal traditional conventions under common law for the care under compulsory conditions of people who are mentally ill and information on the ongoing development of the Mental Health Law and its key provisions in the context of the new National Mental Health Strategy.

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Mental Health Law Profiles
Information
International Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 88 - 90
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013

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