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Are PADs REALLY recovery tools? PDF Print E-mail
Are PADs verhicles to assist with recovery from mental illness?  PADs are meant to help people decide what they want to have happen to them in the event of a psychiatric crisis.  But people with mental illness are rarely in such a state; it fact, the belief that people with mental illness are always in crisis is one of the biggest public misperceptions of mental illness.  So, if people with mental illness do not often have these crises, then how do PADs really help?  Is this just a law that claims to promote 'self-determination' but in effect doesn't really do much at all?  Are PADs mere lip-service to enhancing autonomy? Do they encourage recovery?  How?
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