Myth or Reality

Seminar: “Equal Opportunities & Employment, Training and Income Maintenance for People with a Psychosocial Disability”, Workshops on Equal Opportunities by Wouter van de Graaf and Isabelle Pavone.”

Myth or Reality

Interview with Wouter van de Graaf

Wouter van de Graaf is a mental health activist based in the Netherlands. Wouter, in partnership with others, has established an independent commercial agency that specializes in consumer led research. See the interview here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNGaUc5wRow

Course Ineke Jungschleger & Gien Tuender

Public image, private pain

Publicity is one way to spread knowledge about psychiatric disorders and the possibilities of their treatment. A wider public knowledge can support the efforts to reach a better position for clients, professionals and institutions in psychiatry.

‘Unknown’ implies: no love and no money.

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Article Annette Plooij

Speech delivered during the congress held by the “Kwartiermakers” association (22 May 2007)

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Patient Rights

Article 35

1. Any person with mental disorder has the right to the best available medical and health care services.

2. Any person suffering from mental disorder or being treated as such has to be treated with humanity and with respect for human dignity, and to be protected from any form of economic, sexual or other kind of exploitation, from harmful and degrading treatment.

3. There shall be no discrimination on the grounds of mental disorder.

4. Any person suffering from mental disorder has the right to exercise all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as in other international conventions and treaties in this field, to which Romania has adhered or is a party, except in cases specified by law.

5. Any person suffering from mental disorder has the right to live and work, to the extent possible, in the community. Local public administration, through its competent organs, ensures the patient?s integration or reintegration in occupational activities adequate to his or her health condition and capacity of social and professional reintegration.

6. Any person with mental disorder has the right to receive community care, as defined in the present law.

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