… informal coercion is common in USA mental health services … of compulsion in community
mental health care are used … of compulsion in community mental health care is patchy and …

… Coercion comprises formal coercion or compulsion [treatment under a section of the Mental
Health Act (MHA)] and informal coercion (… Community compulsion was introduced in England …

… services conditional on the patient’s adherence to treatment. Monahan’s study found that half
of public mental health … lence of informal coercive practices in mental health services to the …

… For the purposes of this study, we refer to ‘psychiatry’ as an umbrella term for mental
healthcare services provided by a range of professions, including nursing, social work, clinical …

… Informal coercion and treatment pressures (for definitions, see Table 1) are frequently used
in community mental health care … In inpatient setting informal coercion is also existent but in …

… This article explores the issue of coercion and control in community mental health care with
a … arguments for formal coercive policy to provider rationale for applying informal pressure to …

… community mental health … of community coercion the mental health center becomes the
representative payee for Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance …

… were in treatment within the mainstream public mental health-care systems (mostly institutional)
… , some important aspects on informal coercion in mental health care can be concluded. …

… and informal coercion in inpatient settings, we believe that the results of our analysis also
apply in outpatient and community mental healthcare … in community mental health services. …

In addition to involuntary treatment, patients with severe mental illness are routinely subject
to other pressures such as leverage to improve their adherence to treatment. Little clinical or …