Self-determination rights

Lastly, effective intervention skills include those that help clients understand the systems responsible for medication prescribing and for delivery of psychosocial services. Beyond understanding mental health systems, clients must be helped to understand, how, when, and why medications need to be taken. Forcing clients to accept prescriptions without recognizing how individual and cultural differences will impact the client s willingness to accept the recommended treatment is a recipe for medication noncompliance and violates the basic self-determination rights of clients. 

After World War II, self-determination acquired the status of a legal right. However, the contours of that right were deeply embedded in the idea of decolonization self-determination meant that colonized peoples had the right to freely determine their political fate. Outside the decolonization paradigm, as will be discussed later, the existence of any general self-determination rights has been controversial. 

In order to assess when self-determination rights accrue, the fundamental inquiry lies within the concept of a people. What is a people under international law. The following section explores this concept. 

In their submissions to the world court, Morocco and Mauritania recognized the principle of self-determination, but argued that this principle could not be dissociated from the principle of national unity and territorial integrity of countries. Thus, both Morocco and Mauritania maintained that while the people of Western Sahara may have the self-determination right to separate from Spain through decolonization, the territory of Western Sahara should be... 

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