UCC conference to examine coercion and abuse in mental health care

Researchers, activists, and mental health professionals from around the world are gathering at UCC this week to discuss responses to mental distress beyond the conventional medical model

'Finding Our Own Solutions: Critical Perspectives and Responses to Human Distress' will explore solutions for mental health difficulties outside the medical model of treatment. Stock picture

Coercion, abuse, and overmedication in mental health treatments will be discussed at an international meeting of researchers and activists at University College Cork this week.

'Finding Our Own Solutions: Critical Perspectives and Responses to Human Distress' will explore solutions for mental health difficulties outside the medical model of treatment.