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New Resources on Psychiatric Advance Directives

Tuesday, 04 March 2008

The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
(NRC-PAD), a collaboration between the Bazelon Center and The Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, has
announced new resources for consumers, family members, clinicians and
policymakers-a blog and a conference for social workers.

You are invited to visit the NRC-PAD blog. To leave comments and provide
your input, click on http://www.nrc-pad.org/content/blogcategory/54/86/

The NRC-PAD is a central gathering place for stakeholders to learn about
psychiatric advance directives (PADs) and how to complete these legal
documents. The NRC-PAD aims to assist in implementing of laws that support
patient self-determination and high quality mental health care. It offers
timely information about PADs, including: