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This article is professionally flawed since it does not differentiate sufficiently between intellectual disability and mental health. People with intellectual disabilities (self-advocates) are not patients in the sense that they can be treated for their condition by medical professionals or psychiatrists. They have the same health care needs as any other person.
Thus, this article should be actually split in two parts: the disability rights movement of self-advocacy, and the medical patient-doctor relationship. Both have very few connections and should not be treated in the same entry.
Could I ask for some advice on how to proceed with these changes without damaging the existing content? --Geert frh (talk) 11:26, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I was prompted to look up the meaning of self-advocacy from a self-improvement article in Wikihow. I was surprised to find the words had been hijacked by the professional mental health bunch. Self-advocacy means just that, and to reference it primarily as a tool for impaired, disabled or similarly mentally challenged people could be seen as insulting to them.
May I suggest the article broadly outlines the meaning of self-advocacy and the benefits it may bestow and as an adjunct, describes the special meaning it has to the professional psychology community
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The current state of the page is specifically talking about self advocacy for people with developmental disabilities, but the criticism is about patient advocacy and doesn't talk about people with DD at all Catchant (talk) 01:44, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
