This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized
individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community …

Policy makers have recently begun to reconsider involuntary outpatient commitment as a
means of enhancing public safety and providing mental health services to people deemed to …

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 policies and institutional practices developed to care for people with mental illnesses
have critical relevance to the production of stigma as they can induce it, minimize it or even …

Since the early 1990s, a new modality of community mental health care, strongly focussed
on the control of risk, has taken shape in Britain. It is argued in this paper that this new …

Background Influence strategies such as persuasion and interpersonal leverage are used in
mental health care to influence patient behaviour and improve treatment adherence. One …

Interventions aimed at enhancing psychiatric patients' outpatient treatment adherence
frequently include informal coercion such as inducements, and threats of negative sanctions …

OBJECTIVE: The study examined the use of therapeutic limit-setting activities by members of
assertive community treatment teams with clients who had serious mental illness …

Résumé Défendre l'autonomie des personnes et le respect de leur volonté conduit
légitimement à lutter contre le recours à la contrainte, en le contrôlant, en précisant …

In mental health services over recent decades, the positive move away from hospital-based
care to community-based services has entailed that people with higher levels of need are …