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 …

The first book in a new series from the World Psychiatric Association, Schizophrenia: current
science and clinical practice presents recent information on the diagnosis, neurobiological …

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that a degree of coercion is a necessary
component in using outpatient commitment to attain therapeutic outcome for those people …

Abstract Treatment pressures are communicative strategies that mental health professionals
use to influence the decision-making of mental health service users and improve their …

Treatment adherence is a fundamental challenge for programs that serve people with
serious mental illness. Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a comprehensive treatment …

Purpose Formal coercion in psychiatry is widely studied yet much less is known about
pressures patients may experience, partly because of the very few measures available. The …

Background: People with serious mental disorders typically live with family members.
Despite increasing interest in compulsory community treatment for such patients, the …

Respecting the autonomy and will of people has legitimately led to strictly control the use of
constraint in care activities, and promote a care ethics centred around people's needs and …

Mental health clinicians rely on a range of legal mandates and interpersonal strategies of
encouragement and pressure to address nonadherence to treatment. This paper describes …

Increasingly, mental health social workers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the
world are employing coercive interventions with clients. This paper explores this trend in the …