The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest attempts to contain and treat the mentally ill, power imbalances have been evident and a cause of controversy. There has always been a delicate balance between respecting autonomy and ensuring that those who most need treatment and support are provided with it. Coercion in Community Mental Health Care:: International Perspectives is an essential guide to the current coercive practices worldwide, both those founded in law and those informal processes whose coerciveness remains contested. It does so from a variety of perspectives, drawing on diverse disciplines such as history, law, sociology, anthropology and medicine to provide a comprehensive summary of the current debates in the field. Edited by leading researchers in the field, Coercion in Community Mental Health Care:: International Perspectives provides a unique discussion of this prominent issue in mental health. Divided into five sections covering origins and extent, evidence, experiences, context and international perspectives this is ideal for mental health practitioners, social scientists, ethicists and legal professionals wishing to expand their knowledge of the subject area.
Introduction; Section 1 - Coercion in the community: Origins and extent; Compulsion in community mental health care: historical developments and current provisions; Community treatment order legislation in the commonwealth; Section 2 - The evidence; Descriptive and epidemiological studies; Assessing the effectiveness of compulsory community treatment; Informal coercion: current evidence; Community coercion in mental health: where to for service-user led research?; Section 3 - The experience; Coercion contexts - how compliance is achieved in interaction; Patient experiences and perceptions of coercion: universal meaning, individual experiences?; Family carers and coercion in the community; Clinician attitudes, experiences, and use of coercion; Section 4 - The context; Psychiatric coercion: some sociological perspectives; Human rights in community psychiatry; The ethics of coercion in community mental health care; Section 5 - International perspectives; Coercion in community mental health treatment in the Americas; Coercion and mental health services in Indian subcontinent and Middle-east; South East Asia; Coercion in Europe; Coercion in community mental health care: African perspectives; Compulsory community mental health care: Oceania; Regional themes; Conclusions;
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