The 'Tricky Dance' of Advocacy: A Study of Non-legal Mental Health Advocacy

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aut.relation.endpage12
aut.relation.issue24en_NZ
aut.relation.journalInternational Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Lawen_NZ
aut.relation.startpage12
aut.relation.volume2018en_NZ
aut.researcherMcKenna, Brian
dc.contributor.authorBennetts, Wen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMaylea, Cen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMcKenna, Ben_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMakregiorgos, Hen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-31T03:50:28Z
dc.date.available2020-03-31T03:50:28Z
dc.description.abstractAdvocacy in compulsory mental health settings is complex and contested, incorporating legal, non-legal, representational and best interests advocacy. This paper presents an approach to non-legal representational advocacy used by Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA), in Victoria, Australia, drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with advocates and other key stakeholders. After outlining the Victorian context and the IMHA model, this paper shows how IMHA privileges the consumer voice using representational advocacy, which is rights-based and works for systemic change. Using a supported decision-making model, the paper highlights the enablers and challenges which exist, before discussing the implications in terms of rights, power, capacity building and systemic change. The participants saw IMHA as working to address one of the most troubling tensions in mental health care, between the perceived need for coercion and the need to support people to make their own decisions. Representational advocacy provides a clear, easily transferable and tested framework for engaging in supported decision-making processes with people in the mental health system.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law, 2018(24), 12-31. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v2018i24.746
dc.identifier.doi10.19164/ijmhcl.v2018i24.746en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn2056-3922en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13240
dc.publisherNorthumbria University Libraryen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/IJMHMCL/article/view/746
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectIMHA; Independent Mental Health Advocacy; Mental health; Advocacy; Victoria Australia; Non-legal advocacy; Compulsory treatment; Involuntary treatment; Supported decision-making
dc.titleThe 'Tricky Dance' of Advocacy: A Study of Non-legal Mental Health Advocacyen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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