funded a second technical manual to provide mental health clients with guidelines in
accordance with the values of self-help (Harp & Zinman, 1994). Today, consumer/survivor …

Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate providers' perspectives on how
medical, mental health, and social services are coordinated for people with serious mental …

Objective: Assertive community treatment teams have been criticized as being inherently
coercive; however, base rates of control practices used by teams have not been well …

The authors investigated whether mental health inpatients' perceptions of coercion were
associated with later treatment adherence. Psychiatric inpatients receiving acute care at …

Objective Research on coercion in mental healthcare has recently shifted to the
investigation of subjective aspects, both on the side of the people with mental disorders …

Background Over the last three decades, there has been worldwide recognition of peer
support contributions to improve mental healthcare provision. However, in the current …

Three fundamental clinical issues are consistently associated with treatment engagement
and outcomes in substance using populations; coercion, motivation and therapeutic …

Methods Participants of the multisite study of eight consumer-operated programs had a DSM-
IV axis I or II diagnosis that would generally be considered to constitute serious mental …

For people with mental disorder, access to subsidized housing may be used as “leverage” to
obtain adherence to treatment. Interview data from 200 outpatients at each of five sites …

This exploratory study examines the social interactional aspect of community integration
among persons with psychiatric disabilities. Six focus groups were conducted with 18 mental …