What Is a Mental Health Advocate?
A mental health advocate helps protect those with mental illness. She might work directly with individual patients, helping them to achieve rights or privileges granted by regional or country laws that are presently being denied. These same people or other types of advocates may work in a broader sense, fighting for greater rights for the mentally ill. In any country where people can vote, each person might also be a mental health advocate to an extent. Types of mental health advocates working with patients may be privately or state employed, and come from different education and training backgrounds. Some are attorneys and others might be therapists or psychologists. They may work in locations like mental hospitals or in advocacy organizations.
