This chapter examines a range of treatment pressures in mental health care. Conceptual
distinctions can be drawn between interventions commonly termed 'coercive'. These include …

Background: Questions concerning non-consensual treatment in mental health services
have assumed an increased salience. In significant part, this has been due to changes in …

Coercion in the treatment of persons suffering from mental disorders is one of the major
ethical controversies in psychiatry. Despite great efforts to reduce the use of coercive …

There is probably no more unpleasant task for a clinician working in mental health than
imposing treatment on an unwilling patient; and probably no experience for the patient that …

Coercion in psychiatry can be defined as any attempt to impose treatment against a patient's
wishes. Historically this has been a central aspect of psychiatry, and the principal one that …

Coercion is an essential element of psychiatric treatment and interventions. Legislation in
many jurisdictions contemplates it as a legitimate form of patient management through …

Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry. It is a highly
sensitive, and hotly debated topic in which clinical practice, ethics, the law and public policy …

Prior to reflecting on a specific scenario in mental health care, my moral view of coercion
was fairly dichotomous. In my mind, coercive acts were, for lack of a more sophisticated term …

The dominant rights‐based approach to the ethics of coercion in psychiatric treatment
guides clinicians in deciding whether treatment should be compelled or the patient's …

“Compulsion” in mental health care is a reasonably straightforward notion: the use of force,
one hopes always governed by law, to make a person accept treatment that has been …