In mental health services over recent decades, the positive move away from hospital-based
care to community-based services has entailed that people with higher levels of need are …

In December 2018, an independent review of the 1983 Mental Health Act of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concluded that reforms were needed to …

As reviewers, editors, and researchers with lived experience of mental health challenges,
addiction, and/or psychosocial distress/disability, the authors have struggled to find an …

Background Coercive measures such as seclusion and restraint encroach on the patient's
human rights and can have serious adverse effects ranging from emotional trauma to …

Increasingly, mental health social workers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the
world are employing coercive interventions with clients. This paper explores this trend in the …

Background: To better understand the kinds of ethical challenges that emerge when using
coercion in mental healthcare, and the importance of these ethical challenges, this article …

Coercion has always been integral to the care and treatment of people who are mentally ill
and there is no 'perfect'model in which coercion is absent. A number of interventions have …

This pilot study aimed at investigating how mental health professionals on acute psychiatric
wards recognize different levels of formal and informal coercions and treatment pressures as …

Background: It has long been debated whether coercion can be justified as paternalism in
the field of mental health and it is still a continuing issue of controversy today. Aims: This …

There is ongoing debate in the UK as to the place of coercion and compulsion in community
mental health care. Recent changes in service provision and amendments to the Mental …