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Clinical/Therapeutic
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
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Channel 1
Session Description
The symposium will summarize the perspectives of mental health service innovations aiming to reduce coercive measures in psychiatry. A balanced overview of acquisitions and challenges in the pathway to coercion reduction in psychiatry will be provided together with an in‐depth discussion among all stakeholders to identify the best procedures and validate them in different cultural contexts.
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S0081 - The WPA Programme on Implementing Alternatives to Coercion

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
Room
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Lecture Time
08:00 - 08:17

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The call for alternatives to coercion in mental health care is growing both within the profession and among people with lived experience of coercion in mental healthcare. There is widespread agreement that coercive practices are over-used. Considerable work is warranted across the mental health sector and in communities and governments to ensure that people living with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities uniformly have access to high-quality care and support that meet their needs and respect their personhood and human rights. The question of whether coercive interventions can ever be justified as part of mental health treatment, to protect rights holders’ own interests or on other grounds, is highly contested.

WPA issued a Position Statement and Call to Action in 2020: Implementing Alternatives to Coercion: A Key Component of Improving Mental Health Care after extensive consultation and review. The purpose is (1) to recognize the substantive role of psychiatry in implementing alternatives to coercion in mental health care and (2) to support action in this regard, essential to improving mental health treatment and care in all countries. The Statement recognises the diversity of views and experiences among mental health professionals, people with lived experience and their families and carers. This initial step is the beginning of a longer-term process, which requires continued engagement with WPA member societies, people with lived experience, families and other partners to encourage and support the implementation of alternatives to coercion in mental health care.

https://www.wpanet.org/alternatives-to-coercion

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S0082 - Involuntary Detention and Treatment: Are We Edging Toward a Paradigm Shift?

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
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Lecture Time
08:17 - 08:34
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S0083 - Service User Perspectives on Coercion in Mental Health

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
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Lecture Time
08:34 - 08:51
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While recovery is a deeply personal journey it is also a product of interaction facilitated or impeded through the dynamic interplay of many forces, such as among characteristics of the individual, of the environment and of the exchange. To move recovery forward, recovery-oriented systems in recovery-facilitating environments are needed. Mental health professionals can either facilitate or hinder this journey. Service users and families want to feel they are more than their medical concerns, more than ‘the suicidal’ in room five. Respecting individuals and their human rights, active and engaged listening, including patients in their own healing plan, promoting wellness and engaging with compassion build trust between patients and health care professionals, leading to willingness to follow through with care plans. At the same time, by creating emotional connections and environments, not only can frequent burnouts be prevented, but productivity can be increased.

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S0084 - Implementing the Quality Rights Programme in Public Mental Health

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Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
08:00 - 09:30
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Lecture Time
08:51 - 09:08
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