Question

How to prevent or reduce stigmatisation?

Problem description

The centralisation of locations for mental health care creates environments where one can only find psychiatric patients, and this leads to stigmatisation

Impact - effect

Patients stay in the same circle, they don’t meet many other people, they are feel being looked at by the environment and recognized as psychiatric patient, as inferior

To do

To do : organise as many contacts as possible outside the setting of a psychiatric clinic, rent location in the city, such as a consultation service next to an office for child wellbeing, meet in the city for activities such as sports, for creativity (eg in a conservatory)

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Karen Vanhoutte, Dries Lybeer

Mobile team

2B

Project

Leuven-Tervuren

Intership abroad - place

Lille

Date

December 2012