Background This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next
decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the …

Nonadherence with medication occurs in all chronic medical disorders. It is a particular
challenge in schizophrenia due to the illness's association with social isolation, stigma, and …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

In the early years of the last century, the public was shocked to find that most mentally ill
persons were being housed in local jails and prisons. Such conditions were regarded as …

Background Compulsory supervision outside hospital has been developed internationally
for the treatment of mentally ill people following widespread deinstitutionalisation but its …

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

Background Readmission rate is considered an indicator of the mental health care quality.
Previous studies have examined a number of factors that are likely to influence readmission …

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 …

Amartya Sen's multidimensional capability approach focuses on the importance of freedoms
to be or do things people have reason to value. It is an alternative to standard utilitarian …

BackgroundCoercive treatment comprises a broad range of practices, ranging from implicit
or explicit pressure to accept certain treatment to the use of forced practices such as …