Background It is controversial whether compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people
with severe mental illness (SMI) reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome …

The relationship between mental health and human rights is complex and bidirectional.
Global mental health movements have been emphasizing the promotion of human rights in …

Objectives: Community treatment orders (CTOs) allow clinicians to provide unconsented
outpatient treatment to people living with mental illness. Though controversial and of …

The number of Australians subject to coercive interventions in community mental health
services continues to increase. This is in the context of a growing awareness of the harms …

Background: Outpatient civil commitment (OCC) provisions, community treatment orders
(CTOs) in Australia and Commonwealth nations, are part of mental health law worldwide …

Background Outpatient civil commitment (OCC), community treatment orders (CTOs) in
European and Commonwealth nations, require the provision of needed-treatment to protect …

Objective: This study examined whether patients' perception of recovery differed for those
receiving treatment under a compulsory treatment order (CTO) compared to those who were …

This editorial discusses the pros and cons of community treatment orders (CTOs) from the
perspective of community general adult psychiatry. There is little scientific evidence …

This research explores good practice with people on CTOs-via a case study of one area
mental health service in Victoria. The emancipatory values of Social Work were used to …

Objectives: Existing research on Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) questions what
purposes they serve, for whom and for how long. This study aimed to identify demographics …