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The Response of Community Mental-Health Professionals to Clients' Rights: A Review And Suggestions

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1990

Abstract

Client's rights is an issue which resurfaces periodically in professional journals, but which is ever-present in the minds of consumers of mental-health facilities. While some of the most striking pleas for adherence to rights have centred in the past on inpatient mental-health facilities, similar issues related to client treatment continue to exist in community mental-health centres. This paper reviews the literature on outpatient clients' rights from the perspective of both clients and professionals. The paper provides suggestions for mental-health professionals to more adequately address the rights of their clients in terms of the workplace, the organization of their agencies, and through legal/legislated means.

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La question des droits de la clientèle refait périodiquement surface dans les journaux professionnels. Pour les usagers des services en santé mentale, elle demeure toujours d'actualité. Dans le passé, les allégations les plus fortes d'atteinte aux droits ont mis en cause les services internes de santé mentale. Pourtant, les memes questions se posent quand le traitement a cours dans des centres de santé mentale communautaire. Cet article fait état de la littérature sur les droits des patients traités en externe, du point de vue des clients et des professionnels. On y apporte aussi des suggestions pour que les professionnels de la santé mentale considèrent de fačon plus adéquate les droits de leurs clients, à partir de leur mileiu de travail, de l'organisation de leur agence, et des moyens légaux et/ou législatifs.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 9Number 1April 1990
Pages: 5 - 22

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Version of record online: 29 April 2009

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Leslie M. Tutty
The University of Calgary

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