정신건강증진 및 정신질환자 복지지원에 관한 법률 입법과정에 관한 평가와 과제 - 다중흐름모형의 적용을 중심으로 -

This study analyzed the process of legislating the mental health welfare law by integrating the law on the mental health promotion law of the government and the law on the welfare support of the mentally disabled by applying the Multiple Streams Model which describes the decision making process in uncertain situations. Based on the results of the analysis, the legislative process was assessed and the challenges of welfare policy for the mentally disabled were presented. The evaluation of the mental health welfare law legislative process is as follows: First, the interests of medical experts who were the leaders of the mental health policy have been obstacles to turn the problem of mental health into the flow of policy. Second, the National Human Rights Commission played an important role in transforming the flow of problems into policy flows. Third, mental disorder parties and human rights organizations played an important role as policy innovators in leading the institutionalization process of welfare support policy for the mentally disabled and making a decisive change in policy flow. In order to integrate the welfare problems of persons with mental disabilities into the domain of persons with disabilities, the future task of the Mental Health Welfare Act is that it is necessary to amend the mental ill person to mental disorder person.