Background An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for
treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have …

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

Objective Results from structural neuroimaging studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD) have been only partially consistent. The authors sought to assess regional gray and …

Objective: Studies show a high potential demand for psychiatric advance directives but low
completion rates. The authors conducted a randomized study of a structured, manualized …

Background Interest in PADs among mental health stakeholders has emerged largely since
the 1991 passage of the Federal Patient Self-Determination Act, which introduced new …

Background: Psychiatric advance directives are intended to enable self-determined
treatment for patients who lose decisional capacity, and thus reduce the need for coercive …

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 …

BackgroundAn advance directive is a statement of a person's preferences for treatment,
should he or she lose capacity to make treatment decisions in the future. AimsTo evaluate …

The first episode of a psychotic disorder typically occurs in late adolescence or young
adulthood, a critical time of development with respect to personality, social role, education …

OBJECTIVE: This paper provides the first systematic examination of the content and clinical
utility of psychiatric advance directives, which are documents that specify treatment …