CA25107 - European Network Changing Conduct in Mental Healthcare Promoting Voluntary Measures and Practices (ENCORE)

There is a growing international momentum to promote voluntary measures and practices in mental healthcare and to reduce the reliance on coercive measures, advocating human rights for vulnerable people with mental health problems.

Currently, large-scale implementation of evidence-based voluntary cooperation and coercion-preventive practices is lacking. To realise sustainable change of conduct in mental healthcare, structured implementation frameworks are needed to replicate and implement evidence-based interventions, across various mental health settings (hospitals, community services, etc.), and across wide geographic variations in culture, funding, attitudes and ethical / legal standards for using restrictive practices.

ENCORE aims to proceed from evidence-based on isolated settings towards integral, large-scale implementation strategies for sustainable change of conduct in mental health and community settings to promote voluntary measures and practices across Europe. Therefore, ENCORE will establish a sustainable pan-European research-to-implementation network that brings the essential stakeholders across various levels and countries together, including researchers, healthcare staff, educators, managers and decision makers, PMHCs-representatives and government representatives.

This will overcome the fragmentation in research communities and data, towards understanding key factors for implementing voluntary measures and coercion reductive practices. Main outcome will be a Collaborative Redesign and a Transformation Ecosystem for mental healthcare (CReaTE), where community building, co-creation of training programmes, connections with Ambassadors and information and experience exchange with all relevant stakeholders will take place.