Overview and links to associations in the mental health system, DK
A) Main associations in the mental health system
B) Particularly into recovery and recoveryorientation
A) Main associations of professionals, users and relatives:
Danish Psychiatric Association (Founded 1908). (Dansk Psykiatrisk Selskab) Medical scientific association to promote danish psychiatry, child & youth psychiatry, and research into these areas. Chairman: Ph.D Dorte Maria Sestoft. www.dpsnet.dk
Danish Association for Community Mental Health (Founded 1999). (Dansk Selskab for Distriktspsykiatri). Association for all professionals to promote community psychiatry, education and research into this, plus methods and theories of social psychiatry. Chairman: Per Vendsborg. www.distriktspsykiatri.dk
Danish Association for Psychiatric Nurses (Organisation under the Danish Association of Nurses, DSR). (Fagligt Selskab for Psykiatriske Sygeplejersker). Promote professional co-operation, education and problemsolving between members and specialised groups of nurses. Chairman: Kitte Hay Jørgensen. http://www.sikkerportal.dk/msite/msite.asp?id=58
Copenhagen Hospital Corporation (H:S) (Founded 1995). A corporation of hospitals in the Copenhagen area. The psychiatric units in the Copenhagen Hospital Corporation consisted in 2003 of 1043 single beds for psychiatric patients - nearly 1/4 of all psychiatric hospital treatment in Denmark. http://www.hosp.dk/direktion.nsf/SkalKategorier/FB673F6B0A010331C12566BF003CB93A
National Association "Better Psychiatry". (Founded 1992). (Bedre Psykiatri). Association for relatives and families of persons with mental illness to promote knowledge of mental illness, break taboos and myths of mental illness and promote knowledge of the impact of family and network for persons of mental illness. www.bedrepsykiatri.dk
National Association of (Ex)Users of Psychiatry (LAP). Founded 1999. Association for (ex) users of psychiatry to promote co-operation and mutual support between users of psychiatric services, and to promote opinions, wishes and influence of users in the organization and political decisions regarding psychiatry in Denmark. www.lap.dk
Local Association of (Ex)Users of Psychiatry in the Copenhagen Area - Local LAP-Department (FAP-Storkøbenhavn). www.psykiatribrugere.dk
Danish Association for Mental Health (SIND). Founded 1960. Advocates for understanding and tolerance for persons with mental illness and their families, supports initiatives to promote mental well-being, prevention and treatment by influencing politicians and government. www.sind.dk
The Danish Mental Health Fund (PsykiatriFonden). Founded 1996. Private humanitary organisation, working to increase knowledge on mental illness, problems, causes, prevention and treatment, plus improve living conditions for persons with mental illness. Support research and financially support projects in psychiatry. www.psykiatrifonden.dk
B: Projects specifically designed to promote recovery from mental illness:
Confounding knowledge and
inspiration
www.socialpsykiatri.dk
Recovery-courses in the county of Aarhus - courses in self-help methods (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) - occupational rehabilitation and recovery instruction methods - Financed by the ministeries in order to test methods associated with recovery. www.recovery-aarhus.dk
Recovery through social network therapy - a project under psychiatry in the county of Westseeland - to test network therapy as a method of working with recovery - financed by the ministry of health and by the county of Westseeland. www.recovery-odsherred.dk
Recovery through inclusion of relatives in community psychiatry - a project to strengthen the knowledge of the impact of relatives and families for the recoveryprocesses of schizophrenic patients. Financed by the ministry of health - organized under the community psychiatry in Lyngby-Taarbaek-Soelleroed. http://www.socialjura.dk/index.php?id=5001&type=98
Recovery through work with psychiatric rehabilitation - e.g. the N15 rehabilitation unit in Nordjyllands Amt. Nurse Anne Britt Karlsen.
Recovery in volunteer educational self-help programs (www.psykiatribrugere.dk). Contact: samvirkende@hotmail.com, fap@kontor.dk
Recovery Participant Research Project - financed by the ministry of social affairs, organized under the national associations of relatives and users (LAP & Bedre Psykiatri) - Project to strengthen and clear the perspectives of users and relatives in psychiatry. www.recovery-orientering.dk
Recovery in social psychiatry - developmental projects and educational programs for users and professionals:
www.socialpsykiatriskcenter.dk
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