Targeted treatment interventions are needed. Declaration of interest None. The study was funded by the Chief Scientist Off ice, Scottish Executive Health Department.doi:10.1108/14668203200300027L FindlayBr J PsychiatryBritish Journal of Psychiatry the Journal of Mental Science...
Understanding the ways in which the experience of poor mental health is connected to rectifiable social disparities, such as exposure to violence in communities or food insecurity, makes obvious the need to extend the mental health agenda to include calls for human rights and the pursuit of social...
Since adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the interpretive General Comment 1, the topic of legal capacity in mental health settings has generated considerable debate in disciplines ranging from law and psychiatry to public health and public policy. With over 180...
Maingay, S, Thornicroft, G, Huxley, P, Jenkins, R, and Szmukler, G (2002) `Mental health and human rights: the MI Principles--turning rhetoric into action', International Review of Psychiatry, 14, 19-25.Maingay, S., Thornicroft, G., Huxley, P., Jenkins,...
(Eds.), Mental health and human rights: Vision, praxis, and courage (p. 98). New York: Oxford University Press.Perlin, M.L. and Szeli, E. `Mental Health Law and Human Rights: Evolution, Challenges and the Promise of the New Convention', reprinted in Kumpuvuori, J. and Scheninen,...
Enshrining human rights in British Columbia’s Mental Health Act should be a priority to improve outcomes for the rising number of people treated involuntarily for mental health and substance use, says an advocacy group. The act, which grants uniquely broad powers to B.C.’s health-care syste...
But Eby’s mandate letter to new Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside asks her to prioritize expanded mental health and substance use support for people “causing detrimental harm to themselves” while “upholding the rights of all British Columbians.” ...
This aims to introduce a right-based, person-centred recovery approach within the mental health care system, protecting and promoting the rights of people with mental health conditions, psychosocial, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities in the healthcare context and community. Methods E-training (...
The work of Citizens Commission on Human Rights is inspired by visionary, humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard who urged Scientologists to expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental health, help clean up and keep clean the field of men...
This Human Rights Policy has been communicated to and is accessible to all employees. Employees who believe that there may have been a violation of this Policy should report it through established channels including but not limited to: the manager of the department in which the violation occurred...