Objective: Various forms of compulsory psychiatric community treatment orders (CTOs) are
commonly utilized internationally. CTOs remain contentious because of the ethical …

Background The growing number of compulsory admissions in Denmark and other countries
is a compelling challenge. We hypothesized that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) may …

Objective Mandated community treatment has been proposed as a mechanism to engage
people with severe and persistent mental disorders in treatment. Recently, two approaches …

Legal leverage is broadly defined as the use of legal authority to promote treatment
adherence. It is widely utilized within mental health courts, drug courts, mandated outpatient …

As medical, ethical and clinical effectiveness debates about the use of compulsory
psychiatric treatment continues, it is important to further explore the actual experiences and …

Objective: Since the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services around the world, the scope
of outpatient psychiatric care has also increased to better support treatment access and …

Objective Opponents of community treatment orders (CTOs) argue that they would be
unnecessary if sufficient community services such as assertive community treatment (ACT) …

Abstract The Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) of Ontario is an independent
administrative tribunal that adjudicates on matters of consent to medical treatment including …

This chapter reviews culturally informed evidence-based approaches for assessment and
treatment of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. The first part of the …

Introduction Coercion is inevitably linked to psychiatric and mental healthcare. Though many
forms of coercion exist, perceived coercion appears to be a less studied form despite its …