The World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative: rights and recovery-oriented services should be at the centre not the margins of psychiatry.

Abstract

The World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative represents an exciting shift towards creating mental health services that respect human rights and promote recovery. The initiative is the subject of a recent BJPsych editorial. In this article I challenge previously articulated criticism of QualityRights and suggest that psychiatry has much to gain from promoting rights-based practice.