"This time, with a PAD, I did not receive any treatments that I did not want. They were very respectful. I really felt like the hospital took better care of me because I had my PAD. In fact, I think it's the best care that I've ever received.” Click for more...
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?
Readers have left 2 comments.
1. Self-evident Erik, Unregistered
This seems self-evident, I am not sure why this is an issue to blog about. We never have had anty rights to self-determination and self-deteremination is at the very crux of the definition of recovery.
Posted 2007-10-30 18:21:23
2. do you guys use it with your WRAP??? Guest, Unregistered
hi, I facilitate WRAP classes, and have included the PAD as part of the Crisis Plan. What experiences do others have?
