… Over the last thirty years community treatment orders (CTOs) have gradually become an
embedded aspect of mental health legislation and provision in over seventy-five jurisdictions …

… care. The fact that people with a mental illness may be forced to receive care and
treatment in the community … in approaches that promote shared decision-making and self-determination…

… support requires paying adequate attention to a range of perspectives in CTO discussions and
decision-making… the processes of assessment and decision-making, there is a danger that …

… CTO decision-making was described as challenging and complex and presented the
providers with many dilemmas. The ACT approach was considered as helpful in that it afforded …

… Community treatment orders (CTOs) are legal statutes that … plan of treatment and supervision
while living in the community. … More freedom, responsibilities, choices, decision making on …

… Additionally, there are some indications that procedural justice, or the process of ‘including
people in just and fair decision making’ 27 is inversely correlated to perceived coercion …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to report on a half-day multi-stakeholder symposium
on community treatment orders (CTOs) hosted by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI), …

… Community treatment orders (CTOs) refer to a variety of legal schemes that require a person
… to follow a plan of treatment and supervision while living in the community. Use of CTOs has …

… Decision-making processes remain complex and potentially contradictory at the interfaces
… International perspectives on the use of community treatment orders: Implications for mental …

… Patients’, ACT providers’ and RCs’ experiences with CTOs and the CTO decisionmaking
process studied in this thesis involve several issues, including legal regulations, …