A Practitioner’s Guide to the Mental Health Care Act explains how the South African mental health system functions for those who implement, administer and are affected by the Act The book outlines and explains how the Mental Health Care Act and its regulations are applied to or administered by assisted users, involuntary users, State patients, the intellectually disabled and mentally ill prisoners. A Practitioner’s Guide to the Mental Health Care Act provides ready access to the law on mental health care in the context of the Constitution, case law and international law.