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Professionalism in therapy: The rights of the psychiatric patient

Mental disorders
Anna Góra

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Professionalism in therapy: The rights of the psychiatric patient

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We are starting our series. In the first episode, we look at the rights of the psychiatric patient: legal and ethical issues. Are these regulations sufficient for effective treatment, or is more needed?

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Anna Góra - psychologist, graduate of journalism at the University of Warsaw. Author and publisher of the calendar "Body Mind Soul" 2015. Intern of the Community Treatment Team of the hospital in Tworki. Sources: 1. Mental Health Act of 19.08.1994 2. Prot-Klinger K. Community psychiatry - between romanticism and positivism - an attempt to integrate approaches, Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 10, no 3-4, p.104
3. Information on the results of the audit "Observance of patient rights in psychiatric treatment", p.5, source: https://www.nik.gov.pl/plik/id,3950,vp,5024.pdf; accessed 06.05.2015 Footnotes: 1. Priebe S., Katsakou C., Glöckner M. et al. Patients' views of involuntary hospital admission in psychiatry after one and three months: a prospective study in eleven European countries. Br. J. Psychiatry 2010; 196: 179-85. after: Prot-Klinger K. Community psychiatry between romanticism and positivism - an attempt to integrate approaches, Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 10, no. 3-4, p.104 2. Supreme Audit Office report: Information on the results of the audit "Observance of patient rights in psychiatric treatment", p.5, source: https://www.nik.gov.pl/plik/id,3950,vp,5024.pdf; accessed 06.05.2015 3. ibid.

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