Involuntary care is a feature of mental health services around the world. In addition to
involuntary admission and treatment, specific coercive practices include seclusion and …

Abstract Background The Indian Mental Health Care Act 2017 (MHCA-2017) advocates the
duty to provide treatment in the least coercive manner. Little data exists on how Indian …

Background Despite the scarce evidence for patients' benefits of coercion and its well-
documented negative effects, the use of compulsion is still very common around Europe …

The literature on coercion has focused mainly on the compulsory treatment of psychiatric
patients in hospital. Coercion was thus often equated with involuntary status. However, in …

Background: Despite the extensive research and intense debate on coercion in psychiatry
we have seen in recent years, little is still known about formally voluntarily admitted patients …

AIMS OF THE STUDY In daily clinical work, coercion continues to be highly prevalent, with
rates differing between countries and sometimes even within countries or between wards of …

Mental health legislation permits legal coercion in the form of involuntary detention and
compulsory assessment and treatment (Harding, 1993; Kaplan, Sadock, & Grebb, 1994). An …

Background: Coercive physical measures are commonly used in psychiatric units
throughout the world for the management of severe behaviourally disturbed patients. Aim …

Involuntary Admissions and Coercive Measures in Psychiatric Care: Registered and Reported
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Background Coercion perceived by psychiatric inpatients is not exclusively determined by
formal measures such as involuntary admissions, seclusion or restraint, but is also …