… Against this background, this study aims to explore attitudes towards and experiences of
informal coercion of mental health professionals in countries with different sociocultural …

… mental health professionals on acute psychiatric wards recognize different levels of formal
and informal … An explorative cross-sectional survey among mental health professionals (N=39) …

… and experiences of mental health professionals from four countries (Spain, Italy, Mexico
and Chile), all of Latin culture, on the use of informal or covert coercion strategies in the treat…

… coercion in psychiatry and despite the lack of scientific evidence, many mental health
professionals … of formal and informal coercion at least once during the previous six months. Formal …

… Treatment pressures are communicative strategies that mental health professionals use to
… of threat amounts to informal coercion. We contend that this account of informal coercion is …

… It is recommendable to establish structured education about informal coercion and sensitize
mental health professionals for its potential for adverse effects in clinical routine practice. …

… mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion. …
Our results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a …

… , and application of different forms of informal coercion by mental health professionals. …
Mental health professionals did not recognize the extent of informal coercion adequately; …

… Examples of informal coercion cover a range of more subtle practices based on … that more
experienced mental health professionals expressed a more critical view of coercion. These …

… Yet, informal coercion exists, and mental health professionals tend to underestimate their
use of it. One reason might be that they fail to distinguish between their view of what …