Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Specifically, a network of peer-support facilitators may be able to mitigate resource concerns of the system level, provider fears, reluctance, and lack of knowledge of PADs at the health-professional level, and a lack of trust and support among those with SMI within the service-user level.[10] Although the Patient Self-Determination Act mandated protections for patient autonomy, the law did not provide a sufficient mechanism to ensure the broad use of those protections. …”
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