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The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) includes many national Associations, including the Japan Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. For their annual general meeting yesterday, the WPA published a position statement calling for action to reduce coercion to improve mental health care.
It asks psychiatrists to change their own practices and those that they lead, to train people in using non-coercive measures and to include service users (patients) and their familes in the decision making process. It also asks them to work to change policies in their countries:
“Psychiatrists also have a key role to play in generating political will, developing evidence-informed policy, sharing experiences with colleagues in other settings, and advocating for the involvement of service users and their families and carers in policy-making to ensure that measures are practical, effective, and informed by people with lived experience.”
Their website has a whole section on resources to reduce coercion: https://www.wpanet.org/alternatives-to-coercion
These actions are results from the committees described in the update from May.
Thanks again for your support:
Martha Savage (Kelly's mother)