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- Title
Advocacy: Critical component in a comprehensive mental health system.
- Authors
Stylianos, Stanley; Kehyayan, Vahe
- Abstract
Although rights protection and best interest perspectives are frequently viewed as diametric opposites, mental health advocacy is an important strategy in pursuit of both civil rights and therapeutic goals for people with mental illness. Independent, client‐centered advocacy supports the attainment of consumer‐identified goals for recovery, equality, and social inclusion and mitigates the negative consequences of stigma and discrimination. Advocacy strives to return decision‐making authority to consumers and thus to empower them to play a more central role in their own care, treatment, rehabilitation, and life choices. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
- Publication
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2012, Vol 82, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0002-9432
- Publication type
Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01143.x