https://www.psychdb.com/ 2026-07-18T03:58:43-0700 https://www.psychdb.com/ https://www.psychdb.com/lib/tpl/bootstrap3/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-02-20T10:26:05-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/acp?rev=1676917565&do=diff Advanced Care Planning (ACP) Primer Advanced Care Planning is the process of thinking about, and writing down, one's wishes or instructions for future health care treatment in the event they become incapable of deciding for themselves. ACP includes the use of legal tools such as Power of Attorney or POA, representation agreements, and advance directives (AD) (ADs became a new legal option in 2011 for capable adults).<ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-col… text/html 2025-05-13T17:30:31-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/adult-guardianship-aga?rev=1747182631&do=diff Adult Guardianship Act (AGA) (BC) Primer The Adult Guardianship Act (AGA) is a law in British Columbia for protecting adults with an illness, disease, injury, or condition that makes them vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and/or self-neglect. <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="catlist-head"><div class="entity-list-item"><span class="fa-stack fa-sm"><i cl… text/html 2023-09-26T12:14:11-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/care-facility-admission-consent-capacity?rev=1695755651&do=diff Consent to Care Facility Admission & Long-Term Care Capacity Assessment (BC) Primer In British Columbia, consent is required before one can be admitted to a care facility. Cognitive impairment or dementia, may cause a decline in memory, reasoning, planning and judgement, and make one incapable to decide if they require such an admission. Thus, if incapacity is suspected, a patient's capacity for consent to a care facility needs to be assessed. <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webk… text/html 2025-05-13T16:24:31-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/financial-capacity?rev=1747178671&do=diff bc-mha-capacity Financial Capacity Assessment (BC) Primer In British Columbia, a Financial Capacity Assessment should be done when there is concern that an individual could be incapable of managing their finances in the context of a psychiatric (e.g. - spending during a manic episode in bipolar I disorder) or <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="catlis… text/html 2025-05-13T16:36:54-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/hcccfaa?rev=1747179414&do=diff Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act (HCCCFAA) (BC) Primer See main article: Informed Consent and Capacity Assessment (BC) The British Columbia Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, or HCCCFAA contains the laws for medical treatment, and consent for health care (excluding mental health care) in British Columbia. The <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-… text/html 2023-02-20T10:32:59-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/home?rev=1676917979&do=diff Introduction to British Columbia's Health Care Laws Primer In the province of British Columbia, Canada, there are several laws that guide the process for for medical treatment, consent, capacity, voluntary/involuntary admissions to hospital, and protection and treatment of individuals with medical and psychiatric disorders in British Columbia:<ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul… text/html 2024-02-01T16:58:56-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/bc/informed-consent-capacity?rev=1706835536&do=diff Informed Consent and Capacity Assessment (BC) Primer Consent and Capacity are two central tenets in modern medicine and critical to patient autonomy, the respect for personal dignity, and the delivery of ethical care by physicians. This page focuses specifically on <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="catlist-head"><div class="entity-list-item"><span cl…