Coercion in the community: Issues for mature treatment systems Page 1 Coercion in
community-based mental health treatment refers to much more than just court-ordered treatment …

Coercion in community-based programs has become an increasing concern (Parrish, 1992).
Much of this concern has coincided with the development of assertive (or aggressive) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This dissertation examines the research and theory offered for Programs of Assertive
Community Treatment, the model that is supported by Institutional Psychiatry as the most …

Clinicians working in community mental health must currently attempt to reconcile competing
practice perspectives: on the one hand consumer-driven approaches, and on the other hand …

Known by a variety of names—community treatment orders in the United Kingdom and other
Commonwealth countries and involuntary outpatient commitment or assisted outpatient …

Compulsory and noncompulsory treatments in the United States have changed over the past
50 years in response to a series of events occurring politically, clinically, economically, and …