Self Advocacy

Questions to help you think about your discharge from the hospital.

• Thinking About Your Discharge handout (pdf – opens in a new tab)

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a wellness process that anyone can use. It helps you figure out what you need to do to stay well, signs that you’re not doing well, and what to do when it becomes a crisis.

• WRAP Overview (pdf – opens in a new tab)
• Learn more about WRAP

This guide, examines the intersections of oppression and mental health struggles, and takes you through the process of creating your own personal wellness document.

• Read Madness & Oppression: Paths to Personal Transformation & Collective Liberation (pdf – opens in a new tab)

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) are documents that you can use to specify your preferences for mental health care during times you are not able to give consent.

• Read more about Psychiatric Advance Directives (pdf – opens in a new tab)

Shared decision making tools to help balance clinical information and treatment options with individual preferences and beliefs

• Check out the Shared Decision Making Aid

Strategies for changing the power imbalance during medication meetings with psychiatrists

• Read Reclaiming your Power During Medication Appointments with your Psychiatrist

Handouts about your rights within the mental health system, from the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee (MHLAC).

• Consumer Rights
• Department of Mental Health (DMH) Client Rights
• Guardianship, Conservatorship, and their Alternatives
• Health Care Rights
• Inpatient Rights
• Medication Rights
• Records
• Restraint Rights
• Other handouts from MHLAC