Advocacy: Critical component in a comprehensive mental health system

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-120

  Stylianos, Stanley ^a   Kehyayan, Vahe ^b  

^a Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Americans with Disabilities Act; Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities; Human rights protection; Mental health consumers; Mental health practitioners

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CIVIL RIGHTS; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL VALUE; DISABLED PERSON; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PEER GROUP; PROTECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REHABILITATION CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CONSUMER ADVOCACY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84855960539     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01143.x     Document Type: Article

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