Intentional Peer Support Responds to AOT/ Forced Psychiatry

Intentional Peer Support Responds to AOT/ Forced Psychiatry!  Chris Hansen, Director of Intentional Peer Support, describes a principled, relational alternative to forced psychiatric interventions like AOT (Assisted Outpatient Treatment).  Chris has been promoting, developing and training peers worldwide in Intentional Peer Support for a decade.  She has assisted the development of numerous peer-run crisis respites in a number of countries.  Before her work in Intentional Peer Support, Chris served as an advisor to New Zealand mental health services and on the board for the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.  She was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations to develop the Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In this episode, Chris describes what Intentional Peer Support is and how it came to be developed as an alternative to force and coercion in mental health.  She shares her experience (both lived and work-related) of how and why forced treatments (like AOT) are damaging.  Shel explains why many people believe that alternatives need to be happening, what some of these alternatives are, and how they might come to be more broadly available to people who want them.  Sponsored by Peerly Human Radio - Radio at the heart of humanity.