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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Given the growing attention that involuntary commitment to outpatient mental health
treatment has received in both the clinical and legal literature over the past 15 years, one …

The use of coercion to assure that people with a mental illness receive treatment has been
the focus one of the longest running controversies among mental health professionals. Until …

The use of coercion in the treatment of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness
has been one of the most controversial issues in psychiatry and mental health law in the …

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 …