Mental Health Empowerment Movement. This slogan is that people who are consumers of mental health service have a RIGHT to be fully informed of all of the details concerning decisions made about them by the Mental Health Provider who is serving them.
Some in the Consumer Mental Health Movement are even more radical concerning this. They claim that they have a right to participate in any discussion of treatment and services concerning them . Some will even say that they have the right to vote on decisions and exercise a veto on such matters. Many believe that provider's goal concerning them should be-to allow me to be restored to the fullest extent possible a mental illness free life and to allow me to live a maximally fulfilling life.
The sometime push back from the mental health provider community is - We only have so much time, so much money and limited resources. We also, especially if we are public provider really cant cater to a few!One state , Virginia, has had its' legislature state that for their Publicly Funded Mental Health System is charged with stabilizing those being treated for mental illness . This means - Not likely to harm him/ herself and not likely to do harm to anyone else! Personally, I think that this is a radically low lowest common denominator standard.
How do you weigh in on this?
- Johnny-
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