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In the Netherlands there is much shifting and there is a lot of
scrolling. Cuts change control. There is also a changing vision on care. Not the disease model, but the model of disability with more attention to its own power of citizens is guiding. The trend of government was first: we will arrange it for you. And now it's: What can you do and what can the environment do.
The commune has much more as before now the responsibility for parts of the care. Think about care for young people.
Beds will be phased out in the clinic, and more and more is the emphasis on treatment in the district and neighbourhood. Think of ACT and F-ACT teams.
Intramural care is focused on short-term and outpatient clients
can no longer take part in activating programs. Furthermore, the teams evolve toward self-managing teams. Aid workers must still
register more. This takes a lot of their time and people are not happy with that.
There is from the community and government attention and guidance to encourage clients towards paid work, voluntary work and/or training. Think at IPS, Individual placement and support, which is now fully deployed from the mental health care.
There are also social developments toward Recovery Colleges. People are more and more interested in this method in the Netherlands. The government has extra money put aside even for study. For people with a distance to the labor market, including mental health patients.
If you have questions, please ask because this is a very short view but its a start.
- Updates from Els Makaay
People with psychiatric disorders can benefit from psychotherapy services
Although, in Romania, we are still far from an integrated community mental health system, there are positive changes, in the last years. Due to the continuous efforts and work of nonprofit organisations, the Ministry of Health approved some of the proposals for improving the mental health system.
At present, people with psychiatric disorders can benefit from psychotherapy services, supported by the state insurance system. Also, there is a national program for mental health, that includes several subprograms:
activities implemented in order to prevent depression and suicide (workshops for family doctors)promoting mental health at workplace (trainings for professionals on community psychiatry)developing and implementing a pilot program for prevention of eating disorders in children and adolescents developing and implementing a training program for professionals, working in mental health facilities for children, for using standardized instruments assessing children with autistic spectrum disorder early detection of psychiatric disorders due to alcohol developing occupational therapy services for inpatients, in mental health facilities
Recently, thanks to the great efforts of Center for Legal Resources (CRJ), the state approved and will finance the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism of centers for people with disabilities. The Monitoring Council role is to oversee the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Monitoring Council is an independent human rights institution, essential to the effective protection of fundamental rights of persons with disabilities in institutions in Romania and in facilitating effective access to justice.
In this context, a significant number of nonprofit organizations, activating in mental health, are working to create a national coalition on mental health.
- Updates from Elena Pana
12.08.2016📷
CARe Seminar 2016 for Tepla 3.0 Train-the-Trainer Programme will be held at Eötvös Lorand University on 15 - 17 August
Location: Eötvös Lorand University
Facilitators: Zsolt Bugarszki, Kees van Rest, Triin Vana, Jean Pierre Wilken
Guest Expert: David Blazey, Maudsley London
Seminar topics:
Practising and implementing the CARe model: practical exercises and supervision
How to create national networks and ‘CARe Europe units’
Working with peers and peer support
How to develop training programmes
