It is essential to consider and understand the perspectives of psychiatric providers (eg
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, caseworkers/keyworkers) on coercion, given …

How we reconcile an individual's right to liberty with coercive interventions is a fundamental
question in medical ethics and psychiatry, especially given psychiatry's chequered history …

The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest
attempts to contain and treat the mentally ill, power imbalances have been evident and a …

Background/Objectives: Coercion usually has been equated with legal detention. Many
'voluntary'patients however perceive their community mental health care as coerced. The …

According to the philosopher Charles Taylor (1989), the moral origins of our viewpoints
remain largely implicit until some challenge pushes them into the foreground. Coercion in …

Background Coercion comprises formal coercion or compulsion [treatment under a section
of the Mental Health Act (MHA)] and informal coercion (a range of treatment pressures …

Coercion in mental healthcare is ubiquitous and affects the physical health, recovery and
psychological and emotional well‐being of those who experience it. Numerous studies have …

Coercion is a subjective response to a particular intervention and has been considered an
unfortunate but necessary part of the care of people with psychiatric illness. Its ethical …

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 …

Perspectives is a collection of papers drawn from a 1997 conference in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina. As described in the introduction, coercion has historically been a “polarizing issue” …