极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Bill to overhaul ‘outdated’ Mental Health Act introduced

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:44:59 +0000

I think Nick Perry is overly optimistic and Tahini rather too dismissive of professionals but I do agree that little will shift towards true choice to people in contact with mental health services. No psychiatrist or AMHP will ever listen to someone in crises when the priorities of those are treatment and safety, all defined by them and not people under them. When my brother was being discharged from hospital after a 4 month admission our mam as the NR asked that his medication be reduced and that he be referred to a psychotherapist. Both were rejected as not being “clinically appropriate” for his treatment and recovery. No discussion, no real listening and certainly no inclination to concede professional power. Until there is effective oversight of the totality of mental health services and proper accountability of those working in it little will change. I was an ASW, I remember the excitement and optimism about the ’83 Act. I suspect we will end up with the same status imbalances, inadequate community support and cynicism about involving families in treatment planning that we arrived at post that enthusiasm. Better training always helps but given how power is embedded in systems that mostly oppose personal choice, services always find a way to consolidate what they determine to be “appropriate treatment”. The coalition of professional interests always eventually override all others.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Tahin

Tahin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:11:03 +0000

All we need to know is that “appropriate treatment” is still vaguely addressed and worse left to ‘clinicians’ to determine it’s availablity. So thousands of words, platitudes and the usual suspects asking for more training and the like all simply boil down to the phrase “appropriate treatment” leaving power, coercion, forced treatment and community neglect intact. As an aside I think Nick Perry will find that rather than swerve towards “listening hard” to people in crisis the new regime will trundle on in the interest of ‘clinicians’, budget holders, bed managers, housing providers, police and the rest of the “professional’ cohort. By the way if AMHPs slowed down their practice any further they’d miss their creative contortions embedded into their stock first response to referrals as “inappropriate’.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Nick Perry

Nick Perry — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:50:50 +0000

The commitment of the new government to people in mental health crisis and to modernise our mental health legislation is obvious and welcome. In the announcement of its new Mental Health Bill today, the government rightly focuses on the importance of effective discharge planning and of people’s personal network as a source of vital support, information and wisdom. The recent budget indicates that the government will invest in much-needed crisis resources. What is not yet clear is whether there is a similar commitment to investing in the training necessary for practitioners from different professional backgrounds to be able to slow their practice down; listen hard to people in mental health crisis; obtain essential information about a person’s best hopes for their treatment and care; and put this at the centre of their clinical work.