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1. "helping people to disengage from their symptoms" 2. WHO Quality Rights Initiative "People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:54:52 -0700 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: "helping people to disengage from their symptoms" "People need to accept that they have pain and focus on their quality of life. Some approaches reinforce in patients that the only way you can function is if you reduce your pain, as measured on a pain scale from zero to 10. We focus on how to get you back into your life ... " http://khn.org/news/mayo-pain-expert-holistic-approach-helps-patients-ditch-opioids/ [This article is about pain and opiods and ... I think it applies as well to emotional pain and emotional symptoms. Sylvia] www.peoplewho.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:02:06 -0700 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: WHO Quality Rights Initiative The initiative offers a new approach to mental health care that is rights based and recovery oriented. Freedom from coercive interventions, respect for the right to legal capacity, and promotion of autonomy, choice, community inclusion and recovery are at the core of the initiative. The five main objectives of the initiative are to increase capacity to understand and promote human rights, recovery, and independent living in the community; create community-based and recovery-oriented services that respect and promote human rights; improve the quality of care and human rights conditions in mental health and related services; develop a civil society movement to influence policy making and advocate for the integration of a human rights approach in mental health; and reform national policies and legislations in line with the CRPD and other international human rights standards. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30271-7/fulltext?elsca1=etoc www.peoplewho.org ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 25 Aug 2017 to 30 Aug 2017 (#2017-32) **********************************************************
