Other Initiatives Toward Reduction of Coercion
Advance Planning
There is a large body of research on the use by persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities of various forms of advance planning (Weller, 2013). Advance planning includes practices variously described in English as ‘advance statements’, ‘advance directives’, ‘joint crisis...
Peer Support and the Peer Workforce, International
Formal ‘peer support’, in which former or current service users take on a professional role in services, are associated with numerous improvements on numerous issues that can impact the lives of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities (Repper & Carter, 2011). There...
Training
Various forms of human rights based training exist (see, for example, Part I, Section B ‘World Health Organisation – QualityRights Toolkit and Good Practice Guidance’ p.17). The Médiateur de santé pairs, for example, could be described as a training program in addition to being a workforce...
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