Noups Project

Country

Slovenia

Description

The project consists of research of alternative psychiatric medicine by literature and internet. It prepares users documentation of future law about mental health in Slovenia. There are educational lectures about harmful side effects of psychiatric drugs. The project connects with other handicapped social groups. Opinions about the project are presented in a blog: http://tebizvoni.tuditi.delo.si/

Aims

To project aims to make people aware and to instigate them about the actual state of mental problems.

Areas

Education, Health

Effectiveness

The practice of making users aware of their mental and social position could be a very useful method. The greatest obstacle is the official psychiatric system which is not ready to give up huge material benefits arising from the existing, prevailing medical model of treatment used with mental disorders. The costs of such a practice would be certainly lower than those of the existing ones.

Sustainability

The existing system only increases the number of users; therefore, the new practise will easily sustain all counter-arguments.

Innovation

The project is not something completely new; it is based on a personal engagement of medical and other personnel instead of psychiatric drugs.

Added Value

The project is not something completely new; it is based on a personal engagement of medical and other personnel instead of psychiatric drugs.

Transferability

The project can be useful not only for medical care but also in the field of social care, also in other EU counties

Mainstreaming Potential

It would be certainly useful if the leading politicians could recognise the applicability of this project.

Costs of the Project

Approximatelly 1.000.000 SIT, 4173 EUR per year.

People involved in the Project (number of people and profession)

Four people, three of them are users of mental health services. Two of them with college education and two with high school education. We are all very enthusiastic when dealing with the issue of mental health.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Project

A weakness of the project is the ignorance on the side of the users who are not informed and motivated enough to accept this model, which arises from the opposition of the traditional model of psychiatric treatment.

Contact Person for the Project

Bogo Krajnc
bogo.krajnc@email.si