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 …

The medical model is the dominant ideology of psychiatry. It is used to justify involuntary
institutionalization, forced drugging, and electroshock. By medical model is meant the …

Though coercion is widely used in psychiatry, both in terms of involuntary hospital
admissions and coercive treatment, little is known about the effects of coercing patients. In …

Recent challenges to conventional mental health laws concerning involuntary detention and
treatment of persons with a mental disorder have led to proposals, or indeed an insistence …

One approach to the analysis of ethical dilemmas in medical practice uses the “four
principles plus scope” approach. These principles are: respect for autonomy, beneficence …

This paper deals primarily with the medical treatment of the mentally ill in the absence of a
valid consent given by the patient. Consideration is given to certain central issues, such as …

In this article an overview is given on the complexity of coercion and legal protection in
psychiatric care. The Finnish criteria for coercive treatment and some types of coercion are …

Abstract The United Nations human rights system has in recent years been divided on the
question as to whether coercive care interventions, including coercive psychiatric care, can …

Background: Coercion is a very slippery concept for lawyers. In the field of mental health
care, the authorization of coercion is of special significance Aims: To review the effects of the …

This article analyses the autonomy-based rights approach to treatment for mental disorders
and argues that, because of its focus on capable patients, an autonomy-based framework …