["Open Door". A praxis for a new paradigm].
This paper describes the global situation regarding mental health care and legal regulations in force, and emphasizes the need to rethink policies in order to apply World Health Organization's recommendations in Argentina. In this context, it considers the prevailing mental health systems as trapped in a oversimplified paradigm in relation to health-disease-attention procedures, and their ways of intervention in patients, which erodes these procedures and make professionals uncomfortable. So this paper promotes a new intervention paradigm which takes into account the complexity of the phenomenona, and stresses its relational aspects, the importance of professional training while in service, the inclusion of new actors, and a change in the whole institutional culture. So it proposes the development of a program which intervenes in critical situations while granting a humanized, inclusive, and respectful of human rights system.
Rattagan
Mercedes
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Programa de Salud Mental Comunitaria de Villa Caraza, Prov. de Buenos Aires, Argentina. rattagamer@hotmail.com
D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D016730:Program Development