Misconceptionsaboutmentalpatientslead todiscriminatory behaviour. This is not onlyunfair, but alsoincreases the burden onthe discharged patients and hinders their reintegrationintosociety.
Unicef is calling for countries to demobilise all child soldiers, to provide support for their reintegrationintosociety and to provide them with psychological and social care.
The government was working productively to "shift the focus" of treatment towards patients' long-term recovery and reintegrationintosociety and a new payments-by-results approach to incentivise recovery outcomes was being piloted in eight areas.
Further, limiting or eliminating inmate programs such as drug treatment and vocational education would, in fact, lead to higher costs to taxpayers and communities in the long run as the lack of such inmate re-entry training makes it less likely that released inmates will be successful at reintegrationintosociety upon their release.