How to Create a Psychiatric Advance Directive
What is a Psychiatric Advance Directive? A Psychiatric Advance Directive was placed into law for individuals who are sent to a psychiatric emergency room or psychiatric hospital for care. If the individual has a psychiatric advance directive they are more likely to receive health care that is more effective to their preferences based on their mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing. If the P.A.D. does not incorporate any realistic preferences for appropriate preferred treatment and approach the healthcare provider has the right to deny the request. It is your choice whether or not you decide to ask someone to assist you in developing a psychiatric advance directive. How to make sure the Psychiatric Advance Directive is honored? If you’d really want to have your psychiatric advance directive to be honored in a hospital the best thing to do is to provide an additional letter by your mental health provider confirming that the procedure(s), treatment(s), or any other prefe