Learn how a psychiatric advance directive empowers you to dictate your treatment preferences and medication history before a crisis occurs.

"Mom," my almost 17-year old daughter Sophie said as she licked peanut butter off her finger, “if that ever happens to me again, I want you and dad to make sure I get the help I need.” “That” was a ...

Providing peer or community health workers to help psychiatric patients with complete psychiatric advance directives (PAD) to govern care in advance of a mental health crisis is associated with a ...

Mental Health America, the country's largest and oldest mental health advocacy organization has announced the launch of an important new initiative aimed to inform the public and the mental health ...

In August, 2014, following the tragic suicide of comic genius Robin Williams, Kay Redfield Jamison published an article in the NY Times titled “To Know Suicide.” In this essay, Dr. Jamison mentions ...

Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. When people hear the term “advance directive,” they usually ...

The concept of advanced planning for psychiatric illness emerged in the 1990s; more than half of U.S. states now have a psychiatric directive statute on the books. Interest in such laws coincided with ...

In a film she made with the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives, Ruston recalled her dad showing up at ...

SEATTLE — Despite being put in place 20 years ago by the Washington Legislature, some mental health advocates say that mental health advance directives are not being well utilized in the state. Mental ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peer worker–facilitated psychiatric advance directives proved effective in decreasing compulsory hospital ...

The Crow Wing County Mental Health Commitment Task Force will be offering a training on psychiatric advance health care directives and early intervention on May 17. The sessions will be led by ...