The utility of outpatient commitment: I. A need for treatment and a least restrictive alternative to psychiatric hospitalization

SP Segal, SL Hayes, L Rimes - Psychiatric Services, 2017 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
treatment is provided in a least restrictive manner—that is, in a way that contributes to reduced
use of psychiatric hospitalization… discharged to less restrictive community care is opposite …

The least restrictive environment for providing education, treatment, and community services for persons with disabilities: Rethinking the concept

DH Stone - Touro L. Rev., 2019 - HeinOnline
… in-patient hospitalization be provided only if a less restrictive … health care, food, clothing, or
shelter" when "no less restrictive form … have also acknowledged the least restrictive alternative

Compulsory community treatment to reduce readmission to hospital and increase engagement with community care in people with mental illness: a systematic review …

P Barnett, H Matthews, B Lloyd-Evans… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
treatment might be effective in increasing service provisiontreatment in the community;
the comparison did not have to be an alternative treatment, it could also have been no treatment

Clinical effects and treatment outcomes of long-term compulsory in-patient treatment of treatment-resistant patients with severe mental illness and substance-use …

GD Van Kranenburg, RHS van Den Brink, WG Mulder… - Bmc Psychiatry, 2019 - Springer
Care group, consisted of patients who were still hospitalized … of treatment progress that linear
modelling provided. Neither did … treatment, and could be discharged to less restrictive and …

From punishment to treatment: the “Clinical Alternative to Punitive Segregation”(CAPS) program in New York City jails

S Glowa-Kollisch, F Kaba, A Waters, YJ Leung… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
… which includes mental health treatment aides, dedicated social … Thus far we have converted
hospital return, step-up and … are linked to less restrictive and more therapeutic approaches. …

Cross-cultural notions of risk and liberty: a comparison of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and outpatient treatment in New York, United States and Zurich …

F Hotzy, J Kerner, A Maatz, M Jaeger… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… outpatient treatment, is that the person must have a mental … organization of mental health
care provision in the US and … , involuntary hospitalization and involuntary outpatient treatment in …

Hospital utilization outcomes following assignment to outpatient commitment

SP Segal - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental …, 2021 - Springer
… , such treatment is required to be provided in the community as a less restrictive alternative
(LRA) to psychiatric-hospitalization. … -care, carry out their mandate to enable the provision of …

“Doc, I'm Going for a Walk”: Liberalizing or Restricting the Movement of Hospitalized Patients—Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Considerations

D Alfandre, S Stream, C Geppert - HEC Forum, 2020 - Springer
… appropriate treatment and evaluation cannot be provided as … and Krumholz have suggested
that the way hospital care is … have the right to appropriate treatment in the least restrictive

What Does “Least Restrictive” or “Less Restrictive” Mean in Mental Health Law? Contradictions and Confusion in the Case of Queensland, Australia

J Duffy, S Boyle, K Del Villar - American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
… If involuntary treatment is required, the “least restrictive” … -making by treating teams under
involuntary treatment provisions is … the patient’s readmission into hospital.References to the …

Reducing coercion in mental healthcare

SP Sashidharan, R Mezzina, D Puras - Epidemiology and psychiatric …, 2019 - cambridge.org
… ; equitable access to least restrictive environment, ensuring … services is the provision of care
and treatment for people with … to hospital, under the medical guise of psychiatric treatment. It …