Psychiatric Advance Directives (MHA)
Mental Health America (MHA) supports and promotes the use of psychiatric advance directives as a tool for the expression of an individual's free will and self-determination. Psychiatric advance directives offer several key benefits:
- Promote individual autonomy and empowerment in the recovery from mental illness
- Enhance communication between individuals and their families, friends, healthcare providers, and other professionals
- Protect individuals from being subjected to ineffective, unwanted, or possibly harmful treatments or actions
- Help in preventing crises and the resulting use of involuntary treatment or safety interventions such as restraint or seclusion
Learn more from MHA.
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Title: Psychiatric Advance Directives (MHA)
Author(s): Mental Health America (MHA)
Publisher City: Alexandria, Virginia
Publisher Name: Mental Health America (MHA)
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