Tag: paternalism
Measuring How Mental Health Professionals See Service Usersâ Rights
A new scale has been developed and validated to examine beliefs held by mental health professionals towards service usersâ rights.
When ‘For Your Own Good’ Actually Means ‘For My Own Good’
âFor your own goodâ is oppressive. Embedded in that four-word phrase is the idea that each of us doesnât understand who we are or what we need. Someone else is the expert. Someone else has the privilege to hold all the answers, and if those answers don't work for us then somehow it's our fault.
Psychiatric Diagnosis Can Lead to Epistemic Injustice, Researchers Claim
A discussion of the role of epistemic injustice in the experiences of patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.
Conquering Benign Paternalism
On Wednesday, July 18, the Heritage Foundation sponsored a forum entitled âHow to Bring Sanity to our Mental Health System.â It featured Dr. E....
