AimsTo examine the extent and nature of coercive practices in mental healthcare and to
consider the ethical, human rights challenges facing the current clinical practices in this …

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a major milestone
in safeguarding the rights of persons with disabilities. However, the General Comment on …

The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is
the most up‐to‐date international legal instrument concerning the rights of persons with …

Public mental health deals with mental health promotion, prevention of mental disorders and
suicide, reducing mental health inequalities, and governance and organization of mental …

The purpose of this research is to find out how the principles of legal protection for persons
with disabilities and how the implementation of legal protection for persons with disabilities …

Importance Compulsory admissions, defined as admissions against the will of the patient
(according to local judicial procedures), have a strong effect on psychiatric patients. In …

Background Use of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation varies widely within and between
countries. The factors that place individuals and populations at increased risk of involuntary …

The use of involuntary treatment in psychiatry comes with some benefits and many
disadvantages for the patient's experience and the therapeutic outcome. This review …

This article argues that a more realistic view should be taken of the implications of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for mental health law than the view …

It is widely accepted among medical ethicists that competence is a necessary condition for
informed consent. In this view, if a patient is incompetent to make a particular treatment …