The Challenge and Opportunity for Society, Communities and Psychiatric Hospitals to Improve Community Mental Health Services

The Challenge and Opportunity for Society, Communities and Psychiatric Hospitals to Improve Community Mental Health Services

Clarissa Corradi-Webster (Brazil), Rossana Maria Seabra Sade (Brazil), Jan Pfeifer (Czechia), John Jenkins (UK)

Friday, 7 October 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 BST

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This webinar will outline the importance of changing the culture inside the hospital and how to overcome the barriers to change through different thinking, practices and services.

This will include:

  • Improving the fabric, environment, habitat, programs, therapies, rehabilitation programs, community partnerships and integration with other Mental Health services
  • The training and re-orientation of staff is essential, based on a recovery and discovery approach
  • The importance of the systemic protection of human rights for service users
  • Preparing the management and staff to work on developing community supports and services for social re-integration of users into the community
  • The process of community mental health system development and subsequent downsizing of psychiatric hospitals
  • The importance of addressing the social determinants of mental health through a whole life whole system approach
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