Welcome to the 22nd WCP Congress Program Scheduling

Course content: The course will be delivered by members of the WPA Working Group on Implementing Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Care. We will explore practical ways to address coercive practice while considering human rights, practice improvement, recovery-oriented practice, trauma informed care and the role of lived experience in achieving change. It will highlight the role of psychiatry in promoting change. Service managers, clinicians, and people with lived experience and their families all can play a central role in leading change. Practical steps include policy and legislative change, clinical practice, and personal action in a variety of settings: Personal – attitudes and relationships; Local service level – clinical practice improvement; National policy and legislation, and regional level campaigns. Examples of good practice will be highlighted, and participants will have an opportunity to consider issues in their own countries and how they might become involved.