In the past decade, mental health professionals have initiated a number of national and
international efforts against the stigma of mental illness. While largely successful in beating …

BackgroundService user (patient) involvement in care planning is a principle enshrined by
mental health policy yet often attracts criticism from patients and carers in practice. AimsTo …

Resurgent hopes for recovery from schizophrenia in the late 1980s had less to do with fresh
empirical evidence than with focused political agitation. Recovery's promise was …

Winner of Medical Journalists' Association Specialist Readership Award 2010 Recovery is
widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy. Recovery brings new rules …

Purpose To explore involuntary patients' retrospective views on why their hospitalisation
was right or wrong. Methods Involuntary patients were recruited from 22 hospitals in …

Abstract Background: The “Soteria paradigm” attempts to support people diagnosed with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders using a minimal medication approach. Interest in this …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents that allow users of mental
health services to express their preferences for treatment in future mental health crises. To …

Advance statements documenting mental health service consumers' preferences for
treatment during a future mental health crisis or period of incapacity have gained currency in …

Background An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for
treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) enable users of mental health services to
express their treatment preferences for future mental health crises. PAD completion rates …