Until the last 50 years or so, psychiatric patients mostly interacted with clinical staff within
closed institutions permeated with a paternalistic culture. The transition from hospitalbased …

BackgroundStakeholders worldwide increasingly acknowledge the need to address
coercive practices in mental healthcare. Options have been described and evaluated in …

The dominant rights‐based approach to the ethics of coercion in psychiatric treatment
guides clinicians in deciding whether treatment should be compelled or the patient's …

Objective This review aimed to provide an aggregative synthesis of the qualitative evidence
on patients' experienced coercion during voluntary and involuntary psychiatric …

Little is known about how different groups of health-care workers compare to each other and
to the general public in their opinions about involuntary admission and treatment. In the …

Coercion remains a central aspect of many people's mental healthcare. It can include the
use of legislation to restrict freedoms, the use of physical restraint, the restriction of freedom …

Fiorillo A, Giacco D, De Rosa C, Kallert T, Katsakou C, Onchev G, Raboch J, Mastrogianni A,
Del Vecchio V, Luciano M, Catapano F, Dembinskas A, Nawka P, Kiejna A, Torres …

To illuminate nurses' experience of using coercion against psychiatric patients, a
phenomenological hermeneutic study was conducted with seven registered nurses and …

Background There has been considerable interest in normative ethics regarding how and
when coercive care can be justified. However, only a few empirical studies consider how …

A project based on the “Breakthrough series” for reducing the patients' perception of
coercion in psychiatric acute wards is presented. Three different measures were chosen: 1) …