Objectives Family involvement is strongly recommended in clinical guidelines but suffers
from poor implementation. To explore this topic at a conceptual level, a multidisciplinary …

Pathways to care for psychosis in high-income countries have been well studied, with the
finding of an association between longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and poorer …

Aim: This study attempted to analyse the potential of two primary sources of mental health
service delivery at a grassroots level, religious/faith healers and community/lady health …

Background Capacity-based mental health legislation was introduced in Norway on 1
September 2017. The aim was to increase the autonomy of patients with severe mental …

Background Most studies on the predictors and effectiveness of community treatment orders
(CTOs) are restricted to health-related variables and do not consider forensic contacts as …

Background Treatment pressures encompass communicative strategies that influence
mental healthcare service users' decision-making to increase their compliance with …

The practice of coercion on the basis of psychosocial disability is plainly discriminatory. This
has resulted in a demand from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the …

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be
unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental …

There has been a significant increase in the use of section 136 of the Mental Health Act
1983 in England and Wales, particularly over the past 10 years, but the reasons for this …

Use of coercion on people with mental illness is a deeply embedded practice around the
world. Not only does the practice raise human rights issues, it also leads to further mental …