Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment: A New Frontier in Mental Health Law (The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology)

Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. __Coercion and Aggressive____Community Treatment__ is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals poignantly discuss the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this means forgoing treatment. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Coercion to Inpatient Treatment....Pages 13-28 Outpatient Commitment....Pages 29-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Coercion and Tenacious Treatment in the Community....Pages 51-72 “Coercion” and Leverage in Clinical Outreach....Pages 73-84 The Perils of Outreach Work....Pages 85-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Housing as a Tool of Coercion....Pages 95-113 Entitlements, Payees, and Coercion....Pages 115-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Research on the Coercion of Persons with Severe Mental Illness....Pages 129-145 Coercion and Social Control....Pages 147-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 When Push Comes to Shove....Pages 169-196 Regulation from Without....Pages 197-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-219 "Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when ̀aggressive' treatment becomes ̀coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals poignantly discuss the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this means forgoing treatment"--Font no determinada