MHA National Launches new PAD Support Site

National Mental Health of America has launched a new Psychiatric Advance Directive support page on their website. You can find this new resource HERE.

 http://www.nmha.org/go/information/destination-recovery/after-a-diagnosis/getting-treatment/psychiatric-advance-directives/

AdvanceDirective.org ads new Facilitation section!

The advancedirective.org team is proud to announce the launch of a new Advance Directive Facilitation page! Written by John Oliver Esq., this page provides dozens of crucial advance directive facilitation documents, including an extensive curriculum for training advance directive facilitators.

What Facilitation Is

To “facilitate” an action is to make it easier.  Because most people have not completed an advance directive for their health care, some organizations offer to “facilitate” the completion of advance directives.  This is done by having a trained facilitator help a person go through, and understand, the advance directive form.  The facilitator helps the person to think about his or her values and preferences regarding health care, and how those values and preferences might affect the person’s choices and instructions for health care.

www.advancedirective.org featured in "Developments in Mental Health Law" Journal

This website is featured in "DEVELOPMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH LAW, Volume 30, Issue 1", a journal about mental health legal developments is Virginia edited by Jane Hickey.

Developments in Mental Health Law is peer reviewed and published by the Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy (ILPPP) with the support of funds from the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.  The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the official position of either the ILPPP or the Department.

For more information go HERE.

Healthcare decisions and Changes to Virginia's Advance Directive Law

RN Cindy Westley, a patient educator at UVA Medical Center, discusses how an advance directive can help you make health care decisions, and changes to Virginia's advance directive law that took effect July 1, 2009.

Revamped Advanced Directives in Virginia Website!

This page is an early draft of the possible redesign of our current website, www.advancedirectivesva.com