WPA International Congress of Psychiatry -- Treatments in Psychiatry:
An Update
November 2004, Florence, Italy
Partnerships: the personal, the political, the practical
Sylvia Caras, PhD
Rights and Information
The Information Society
http://www.peoplewho.org/informationsociety/
Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights
and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
http://www.peoplewho.org/unconvention/
Integrating mental health and general health: a social model of disability culture
University of California at Berkeley Center for Community Wellness
http://www.wellnessguide.org/
Wellness Guide Online
http://www.wellnessguide.org/toc.htm
WHO report: a new understanding of mental disorders
http://www.who.int/whr/2001
The Definition of Disability - Perspective of the Disability Community
http://www.peoplewho.org/debate/kaplan.htm
"Clinicians view symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments in ways that sometimes diverge from their clients’ views especially when the cultural backgrounds of the consumer and provider are dissimilar. This divergence of viewpoints can create barriers to effective care. ... The cultures of the clinician and the service system affect diagnosis, treatment, and the organization and financing of services." Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Executive Summary, DC: US HHS, p. 6
Including consumers and survivors
http://www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/AdvisoryCouncil/matrix.asp
The Role of Consumers in Mental Health Care
http://www.who.int/whr/2001/main/en/boxes/box3.4.htm
Honoraria Practices
http://www.peoplewho.org/documents/honoraria.htm
Adult Mental Health Self Directed Care Program
http://www.floridasdc.info/
Embedding recovery
The Village Integrated Service Agency
http://www.village-isa.org/
Recovery Model
http://www.mhsip.org/recovery/
(Recovery is omitted from medical model http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/prevfg3.htm)
Mental Health Recovery Self-Help Strategies
http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/
Boston University Schizophrenia Rehabilitation and Recovery Institute
http://www.bu.edu/resilience/
Japan: Model Community Includes Mentally Disabled Persons
http://www.disabilityworld.org/11-12_03/il/japan.shtml
Self-Determination Workshops
http://www.psych.uic.edu/UICNRTC/sdworkshop.htm
Limiting coercion
The World Federation of Mental Health adopted resolutions opposing involuntary outpatient commitment (1999) and condemning involuntary electric shock (2001)
http://www.wnusp.org/docs/santiago1999.html
Using respectful language
http://www.peoplewho.org/documents/wordsmatter.htm
http://www.peoplewho.org/readingroom/caras.stigma.htm
Recognizing abuse and trauma-induced disorders
http://www.peoplewho.org/abuse/
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/omhq/q1200/trauma.htm
Expanding the evidence base
http://www.peoplewho.org/readingroom/anthony.evidence.htm
Examples of partnership
http://www.mentalhealth.org/consumersurvivor/publications.asp
- SMA-00-3472 Book/Monogram Participatory Dialogues
This manual, developed by mental health consumers, is designed to stimulate and promote
dialogue among States, local communities, providers, managed care organizations,
advocates, family members, and consumers.
http://www.mentalhealth.org/consumersurvivor/subcommittee.asp
http://www.vaboard.org/policymaking.htm - Partners in Policy Making: "Training Advocates to Step Up to Leadership Roles" This now international program is part of the developmental disability community and many of its strategies carry over to psychiatric disability