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'Let's have madness. Let's have diversity. Let's celebrate this'
Olga Runciman, Final Plenary Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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'DSM is an extraordinarily impoverished philosophy of being.'
Bob Whitaker during Final Plenary Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Bob Whitaker talks about how DSM localises the problem inside the individual rather than in society
Day3 FinalPlenary #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Final Plenary Transforming for future: Where to from here
Bob Whitaker, Olga Runciman, Amita Dhanda & Liam Macgabhann #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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family group conferencing doesn't focus on why the problem exists but on what would help.
Jolijn Santegoeds, Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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'family has a right to make their own plans before the government intervenes' Jolijn Santegoeds' workshop on Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Jolijn Santegoeds leads workshop on 'Family Group Conferencing: an alternative to forced psychiatry'
Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Yana Jacobs abt Loren Mosher , 'psychiatric treatment not working. people not getting better. In fact becoming worse @TrustBapu #INTAR2016

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'At Soteria you were just at home. It was a normal home environment' - Yana Jacobs
Day3 @TrustBapu #INTAR2016

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'I didn't even know what schizophrenia is. I now know that's what qualified me to work at Soteria House' -Yana Jacobs @TrustBapu #INTAR2016

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Yana Jacobs talks about 'Responding to Crisis: Soteria experience'
Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Q&A 'A lot of people might not self identify as persons with disability but the CRPD respects the rights of all people @TrustBapu #INTAR2016

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Day3 Q&A Morning Plenary. Human Rights need to be the standard for training service providers rather than exception. #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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'CMH services need to promote inclusion and independent living'. Michelle Funk, WHO
Day3 @TrustBapu #INTAR2016

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'CMH services need to be more than services that are based in the community.'
Michelle Funk, Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Michelle Funk of the WHO on how WHO has been endorsing deinstitutionalization for the past 15 years Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Can't detain someone on assumption of their being dangerous to themselves & to others. Diane Kingston on Art. 14, CRPD #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Diane Kingston CRPD committee member emphasizes the human rights model with regard to persons with disability Day 3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Samuel Kabue on how lack of awareness major problem with regard to psychosocial disability
Plenary conversations Day3 #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu

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Samuel Kabue member of CRPD committee talks about the various articles protecting rights of persons with disability #INTAR2016 @TrustBapu