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) …

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 …

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 …

Issues of concern regarding coercion of psychiatric patients, which were once relevant only
to psychiatric hospitalization, are now applicable to the community arena as well. The need …

Debate over the role of coercion in mental hospital admission frequently invokes the
prospective patient's moral right to decision-making autonomy and individual dignity (eg …

Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the
mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained …

This chapter addresses the issues of coercion and leverage in clinical outreach to persons
who are homeless and have a severe mental illness. The terms coercion and leverage refer …

Coerced mental health treatment in the community that is mandated by court order is known
as outpatient commitment. This official mandatory mental health treatment in the community …

This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and
historically based on the uncritical but societally well accepted view that medically justified …

No psychosocial intervention has in-fluenced current community mental health care more
than assertive corn-munity treatment. During the early years of deinstitutionalization, when …