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 …

Outpatient commitment, although often viewed as merely an extension of inpatient
commitment, is only one of a growing array of legal tools used to mandate treatment …

One response to the problems created by deinstitutionalization has been outpatient
commitment. Involuntary community treatment presents a series of dilemmas, including …

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 …

Outpatient commitment (OPC), a major form of involuntary community-based treatment, has
evolved in the United States on a state-by-state basis amidst a storm of controversy. The …

This article examines the concept of preventive outpatient civil commitment as a mechanism
for controlling the behaviour of the chronically mentally ill. The goal of preventive outpatient …

This chapter examines into the ability of coerced community treatment to do as well as
involuntary hospitalisation in treating mentally ill patients and in protecting the public with …

Outpatient civil commitment refers to a court order that directs a person who has a serious
mental disorder to adhere to a prescribed community treatment plan, which may include …

Mental health laws regarding involuntary commitment are under pressure for reform in many
states. One popular proposal is to use direct involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment …

Many states use civil commitment—a statutorily created and court-ordered form of
compulsory treatment—to compel people with mental illness who become gravely disabled …