BackgroundUnderstanding patient experiences of detention under mental health legislation
is crucial to efforts to reform policy and practice. AimsTo synthesise qualitative evidence on …

Despite advocacy and demand for psychiatric advance directives (PADs), uptake and
implementation in clinical practice is low. We examine why PAD implementation has been …

Purpose To explore involuntary patients' retrospective views on why their hospitalisation
was right or wrong. Methods Involuntary patients were recruited from 22 hospitals in …

Objectives Advance directives are documents stating treatment preferences in case of future
lack of decision making capacity. In India, as in many other countries, legislators advocate …

So, the situation is that what was offered by Szasz as a seemingly irrefutable argument for
reconciliation actually depends on the world view that the individual espouses. If I believe in …

The advance directive is a statement of an individual's preference for future treatment. The
concept initially evolved in the context of end-of-life treatment decision making …

Although psychiatric advance directives give service users control over their care, very few
studies exist on the content of PADs. This paper aims to contribute to this evidence base by …

Advance Statements enable mental health patients to have their preferences considered in
treatment decisions in the event of losing capacity, but their uptake is poor. This is for …

Seclusion is used in forensic and general mental health settings to protect a person or
others from harm. However, seclusion can result in trauma‐related harm and re …

This study examines whether Australian psychiatrists would support requests in a psychiatric
advance directive (PAD) and the reasons underlying their decisions in response to a …