This is an advanced health care course that focuses on legal regulation of the mental health care system. Topics usually include defining, diagnosing, and treating mental disorders; the mental health care professions; mental health care finance; state regulation of the mental health care professions, including licensing and administrative disciplinary schemes; state and federal regulation of insurance coverage of mental health care; state and federal regulation of privacy and confidentiality in mental health care practice; informed consent in mental health care practice; civil commitment, civil competencies and guardianship; and professional liability for malpractice.