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Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care (MI Principles)


 

  • Principle 1.1: „All persons have the right to the best available mental health care, which shall be part of the health and social care system.”

  • Principle 1.2.: „All persons with a mental illness, or who are being treated as such persons, shall be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.”

  • Principle 3: „Every person with a mental illness shall have the right to live and work, as far as possible, in the community.”

  • Principle 4.2: „A determination of mental illness shall never be made on the basis of political, economic or social status, or membership of a cultural, racial or religious group, or any other reason not directly relevant to mental health status.”

  • Principle 6: „The right of confidentiality of information concerning all persons to whom these Principles apply shall be respected.”

  • Principle 11.2: „Informed consent is consent obtained freely, without threats or improper inducements, after appropriate disclosure to the patient of adequate and understandable information in a form and language understood by the patient on: (a) The diagnostic assessment; (b) The purpose, method, Likely duration and expected benefit of the proposed treatment; (c) Alternative modes of treatment, including those less intrusive; and (d) Possible pain or discomfort, risks and side-effects of the proposed treatment.”

  • Principle 13.1.: „Every patient in a mental health facility shall, in particular, have the right to full respect for his or her: (a) Recognition everywhere as a person before the law; (b) Privacy; (c) Freedom of communication, which includes freedom to communicate with other persons in the facility; freedom to send and receive uncensored private communications; freedom to receive, in private, visits from a counsel or personal representative and, at all reasonable times, from other visitors; and freedom of access to postal and telephone services and to newspapers, radio and television; (d) Freedom of religion or belief.”