BLOG FOSTREN - ISRAEL
Written by Ronen Shmilovitz, Alexander Shestiperov
- What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
The Ministry of Health mental health department in Israel declared: "The Mental Health Services in the Ministry of Health are working to protect the dignity of all service users as defined in the Basic Law of…
What ails Bulgarian psychiatry?
The oldest practising psychiatrist in the country is 89 years old and since the time he was born almost nothing has changed in this totally neglected by the state and society field. "I'm pulling articles from 1905 and they just need to change the year and they'll sound relevant again," Dr.…
BLOG FOSTREN- ITALY
Raffaella Pocobello, Livia Lepetit, Tommaso Bonavigo, Gian Maria Galeazzi, Giulio Castelpietra, Antonello Leogrande, Francesca Camilli, Giovanni Rossi
What is your Country's stand on coercion reduction?
Coercion in psychiatry has been a discussed topic in Italy for many years, especially in the long and complex process of deinstitutionalisation that led to the abolition…
Written by Marina Loseviča
The blog was constructed in collaboration with the research project “Towards a human rights approach for mental health patients with a limited capacity: A legal, ethical and clinical perspective”, No. lzp-2020/1-0397
What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
Coercive practices permitted in Latvia
In Latvia, formal coercion…
Written by Yvonne Quenum
What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
In France, consent is one of the essential conditions for therapeutic care. Psychiatry is an exception: to prevent harm to the patient or to other people, legal measures can be used to force individuals with mental health conditions to receive treatment against their…