Deinstitutionalizing Mental Health in Albania, Shortcoming of a National Reform (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

Our goal was to examines the right to quality mental health services in Albania from a comparative approach integrating the analysis of inherited clinical concept of psychiatric treatment with the “innovative” model of community based services, introduced after law amendments in 2012. The Albanian health care system of the ’90s showed many challenges in splitting the clinical psychiatry into mental health and psychiatry (seen separately as a medical specialty). This was reflected in the difficulties of amending the 1996 law on mental health, and the urgency of the integration of concepts of human rights and fundamental freedoms for the treatment of people with mental illnesses. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD, 2006) provided momentum to highlight the importance of the nexus between disabilities, mental health and deinstitutionalization. Furthermore, the new context of the 2012 legislation, followed by secondary acts, action plans and s...

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