an expert from Hospital Arnau presents an essay on psychiatric treatment outpatient involuntary.
-to the event, held at the EVES, have assisted the Undersecretary of the Ministry of health, Alfonso Bataller and JoaquÃn Ybarra.
valencia, 2011-April El doctor Jose Manuel BertolÃn, Coordinator of mental health of the service of Psychiatry in the Department of health Valencia – Arnau of Vilanova – Lliria, has presented his book basis involuntary outpatient psychiatric treatment bioethical.
chaired by the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of health, Alfonso Bataller and by JoaquÃn Ybarra, director of the Valencian School of health studies (EVES), the Act has taken place today at the headquarters of the EVES. the aim of the book is to help clarify conflicts bioethical posed outpatient psychiatric treatment involuntary (TAI) ”, indicates the doctor BertolÃn.
known as TAI is lash psychiatric treatment that does not carry membership in a closed psychiatric hospitalization unit and who is judicially ordered for patients suffering from serious mental disorders and that incumplirÃan probably such treatment without the order Court.
the study reviewed the evidence on their effectiveness, the existence of less restrictive health care alternatives, the problem of the ability of the patient which is directed, experiences or perceptions under TAI, issues legal, philosophical and bioethical involved and their relationship with some Western cultural implications ”, indicates the doctor Jose Manuel BertolÃn.
the publication sets out the objective, material and method of research, as well as the results, conclusions of the author, bibliography and two annexes of regulation and legislation. is a work which will contribute to clarify an issue important and discussed current psychiatric assistance such as legitimizing bioethics of involuntary outpatient treatment ”, note Alfonso Bataller and JoaquÃn Ibarra in the prologue to essay.
