This year 2025 the long awaited Danish psychiatry plan is expected to be implemented.
It consists of the following goals:
• The mental health of children and young people has improved
• People with mental disorders live longer lives with less illness
• People with mental disorders are included and accepted in society to a higher degree
• People with mental disorders are retained in jobs, school and education and more often get an
education and a job
• People with early signs of or at risk of developing mental disorders receive early preventive intervention
• People with mental disorders experience high quality, care, involvement, coordination and
cooperation in the services.
• People with mental disorders are subjected to less coercion and use of force
• People with mental disorders and concurrent substance abuse receive more cohesive and effective
treatment and more of them succeed in quitting their abuse
• Fewer people with mental disorders are sentenced for a crime
• Family and friends are more often given the support they need and their resources are used more
actively in treatment
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