Author/Editor		Lešnik, B
Title		Zagovorništvo
Translated title		Advocacy
Type		članek
Source		Soc Delo
Vol. and No.		Letnik 33, št. 1
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 51-9
Language		slo
Abstract		The author reviews the topical issue of Social Work on advocacy of psychiatric patients and considers the practical and conceptual frames of the title subject. He finds the project to include possibly antagonistic activities. In his view, advocacy is basically a critical and reflexive activity of articulating, promoting and safeguarding the rights of psychiatric patients, following the "principle of justice" as opposed to - and sometimes opposing to - the "principle of need" ruling the manifold forms of security, care and help. The essay contains numerous general remarks on the used terminology and remarks to the linguistic aspects of the topic.
Descriptors		MENTAL DISORDERS PATIENT ADVOCACY COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL