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on Mental Health and the future European Strategy on Mental Health). Its role in the regulation
of the Involuntary Outpatient Treatment (IOT) is also known as well as in the Law on Promotion
and Prevention of Autonomy and Care to Dependency, among others.
2. Service Providers
The associative movements are also characterised because they carry out support services.
In some countries, such as France or Ireland, the services provided by the associative movement
are focused on support and training groups, information services and awareness, demand and
denunciation actions. In Spain, as in Great Britain, different social or social-health services are
managed, which contribute to covering the needs of users and families where public resources
are not sufficient. There, a series of basic services are offered, which vary from information and
counselling, awareness-raising and promotion of mental health, legal advice for programmes of
psychoeducation, self-help groups, family break activities and home care programmes.
Other services are based on the organisation of activities framed within the psychosocial
rehabilitation process, labour rehabilitation, and leisure and spare time activity programmes, as
well as on the management of the resources that can carry them out.
3. Social awareness-raising
This is one of the cornerstones of the associative movement. The dissemination and social
awareness-raising activities, which these organisations organise and promote, are assumed as a
fundamental task both by the actual organisations and by the professionals and politicians, agents
and planners. There are many different initiatives and projects aimed at raising social awareness,
from the promotion and prevention of mental health, to addressing discrimination and prejudices
towards mental illness and people who suffer from it. The aim is to get public administrations
(state, regional or local) to assume these initiatives through awareness-raising activities for specific
groups (students, professionals, media, employers…). Initiatives to be highlighted due to
their impact are the “Schizophrenia opens the doors” programme and the “Zerostigma” campaign
promoted by EUFAMI in 2004. Equally important is the work carried out with the social media
though the Style Guide for Media, published by FEAFES, or the participation in studies on stigma
(project, “harassment and discrimination faced by people with psychosocial disability in of health
services” promoted by Mental Health Europe, MHE).
It is still necessary to join and coordinate the forces of the different players who intervene in the
integrated treatment of people with SMI and the support to their families. The aim is no other than
to guarantee the healthcare continuity that these people require, with the most effective therapeutic
techniques and strategies, providing the most normalised and personalised possible support.
9. Addresses and websites of interest
National Associations
Spanish Federation of Associations of Families and People with Mental Illness, grouping
together federations and association of people with mental illnesses and their families from the
entire national territory. The contact addresses of the member associations in each Autonomous
Community can be consulted on their webpage.
http://www.feafes.com feafes@feafes.com
C/ Hernández Más, 20 – 24. 28053 Madrid
Tel: 91 507 92 48 Fax: 91 785 70 76
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