Focus on
stigmatisation of mentally ill wrong - a new story from New Zealand this
week...The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have come under fire from the Sensible Sentencing Trust following a press release published in the wake of Dean Clark's murder by a mental health patient under District Health Board care.
Sensible Sentencing Trust Mental Health Issues spokesman, Graeme Moyle, whose brother Colin was murdered in 2007, in similar circumstances to Mr Clark has criticised claims in the press release as inaccurate and out of date.
"The College of Psychiatrists is concerned" Mr Moyle said, "not about public safety and the fact that dangerously unwell patients are abandoned and untreated, but with the possibility that media coverage of events like Mr Clarks murder may lead to labeling and stigmatising of those with mental illness. Give me a break! Maybe if these patients were given the care and treatment they require before these incidents occur the media would have nothing to report. Perhaps the RANZCP should look at how these tragedies could be prevented in the first place, rather than attacking the press when they report on them".
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/14234154/focus-on-stigmatisation-of-mentally-ill-wrong-sensible-sentencing/
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