Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents that allow users of mental
health services to express their preferences for treatment in future mental health crises. To …

Background: Service user perspectives are essential for the evaluation and development of
mental health services. Service users expressing less satisfaction with services …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) enable users of mental health services to
express their treatment preferences for future mental health crises. PAD completion rates …

Coercive interventions for psychiatric patients are controversial. Research on different
preventive measures has increased over the last years. The present study examined …

Background: Supporting the decision-making of mental health service users fulfils
professional, ethical and moral obligations of mental health practitioners. It may also aid …

Background: The idea that people with severe mental illness should be able to plan in
advance for periods of illness as a means of enhancing autonomy has been long debated …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are written documents or oral statements that allow
adults with decisionmaking capacity to declare their treatment preferences and/or to …

Psychiatric advance directives (ADs) allow an individual to state their preferences for future
treatment at times when they may be unable to make considered decisions. There are …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow individuals with
psychiatric illness to designate decisions, while competent, about their future psychiatric …

Background Involuntary admissions (IA) to psychiatric hospitals are controversial because
they interfere with people's autonomy. In some situations, however, they appear to be …