Registration for the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Law and Mental Health: How to Reach Consensus” is open

On October 21, 2022, the Union for Mental Health, together with the Foundation for the Development of the Heritage of Professor M. K. Treushnikov “PATH TO THE LAW” and the Kutafin Moscow State Law University will hold the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Law and Mental Health: How to Reach Consensus” (Congress Center, World Trade Center).

The conference will become a platform for discussing the problems of legal regulation of activities in the field of mental health and developing proposals for their solution based on an interdisciplinary approach. Through joint efforts, mental health professionals, lawyers, leaders of NGOs will be able to influence the improvement of the quality of treatment and prevention, medical, social and legal assistance to people with mental disorders, as well as the prevention of diseases in the broadest demographic context through recommendations for improving the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

Thematic areas of the conference:

  1. Legal regulation of mental health care.
  2. Ensuring the rights of children and adolescents to mental health care.
  3. Mental health protection in the system of educational legislation.
  4. Mental health protection in the system of labor legislation.
  5. Protection of the rights of citizens with mental disorders.

Invited to participate: lawyers, medical and non-medical mental health professionals; representatives of NGOs, executive and legislative authorities, and mass media.

To participate in the conference, you must register on the website before October 1, 2022 (registration is free): https://conf.mental-health-russia.ru/

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