It has been at the forefront of major trends in psychiatric treatment, such as its initiation of deinstitutionalisation in the 1960s, and development of a suicide prevention programme in 1995 (updated in 2006). In 1995, the country’s mental health care system underwent a major reform in order to improve quality of life for long-term psychiatric patients and emphasise community care (Silfverhielm & Kamis-Gould* 2000). Mental health policy has benefited from increased funding in recent years, with the most recent plan spanning 2012 to 2016.