Health Care Reform Based on an Empowerment Model of Recovery by People With Psychiatric Disabilities
心理健康
授权
医疗保健
心理学
护理部
精神科
作者
Daniel B. Fisher
出处
期刊:Psychiatric Services [American Psychiatric Association Publishing] 日期:1994-09-01卷期号:45 (9): 913-915被引量:131
标识
DOI:10.1176/ps.45.9.913
摘要
People witb psycbiatric disabilities have articulated a model of recovery that encourages their empowerment by emphasizing consumerdefined goals, liberty, self-control of symptoms, peer support, elimination of discrimination, and provision of adequate material and social supports. Application of this model to health care reform requires public education to fight discrimination, an end to the use of involuntary interventions in the name of treatment, further development of services run by sur-vivors-consumers and other alternatives topsychiatric hospitalization, and increased involvement of sur-vivors-consumers in decisions related to their treatment and support. To promote empowerment of people with mental health problems, health care reform should include affordable, universal coverage without exclusions for preexisting high-risk conditions, parity of mental health benefits with other benefits, which includes coverage for voluntary services only, and incentives for funding long-term care, alternatives to...