NAMI | Facts About Informed Consent to Treatment

Below this is a real consent form thats informative. I searched NAMI (national alliance on mental illness) and learned informed consent its not a signed sheet of paper. Why not ?

From NAMI:

"The Informed Consent Process:

Informed consent is not a signed sheet of paper. Informed consent is also not a one-time act of saying yes. Rather, informed consent is a process of conversation between a research subject and an investigator, possibly involving several members of the research team, leading to an understanding of the research, a meaningful initial decision to participate, and on-going communication during participation. The following scenario is an example of how the process should not go. "

This link will lead you to the rest of NAMI opinions and an example of how the process should not go : http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Sectio ... ntID=26911


Why not a signed paper explaining psychiatric treatment ?!!
Here is a A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment: http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polof ... onsent.htm

Here is a group that cares about patient rights:
http://psychrights.org/index.htm

I just couldent find much of anything about informed consent from NAMI, I tried. You can too.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nami+inf ... +treatment I also typed informed consent to treatment in the search box on the NAMI website without much result besides lame reasons to deny it.


"Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic...

But because they are 'treatment, not punishment, they can be criticized only by fellow-experts and on technical grounds, never by men as men and on grounds of justice...

" C. S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment"