ObjectivesTo identify attitudes about involuntary admission and treatment in mental health
professionals and lay-people and to compare results between England and Germany …

A project based on the “Breakthrough series” for reducing the patients' perception of
coercion in psychiatric acute wards is presented. Three different measures were chosen: 1) …

OBJECTIVE: Little research has been conducted on the attitudes of persons with psychiatric
disorders toward the potentially adverse or beneficial effects of involuntary outpatient …

Involuntary hospitalization and coercion during psychiatric admissions have been under
debate for many years (Lidz et al., 2000; Monahan et al., 1995). From Pinel's historical …

This study examined the impact of three program-level factors (coercion level, type of
antipsychotic prescribed, and guardian supervision) on antipsychotic medication adherence …

Coercion in psychiatry can be defined as any attempt to impose treatment against a patient's
wishes. Historically this has been a central aspect of psychiatry, and the principal one that …

Coercive psychiatric treatment (involuntary hospitalisation, seclusion, restraint and forced
medication) varies widely between European countries with regard to legal background …

Immunotherapies and sustained-release medications may be the hope of the future for many
individuals addicted to drugs who are willing, even eager, to access state-of-the-art …

The psychiatric emergency service (PES) in general hospitals in California is where most
civil commitment evaluations are completed and where significant numbers of psychiatric …

Immunotherapies and sustained-release medications may be the hope of the future for many
individuals addicted to drugs who are willing, even eager, to access state-of-the-art …