Issue Special Issue 1/2007
World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review
Content (184 Articles)
Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a comprehensive review. Reflections on the Dresden WPA Thematic Conference, June 2007
Juan E Mezzich, Thomas W Kallert
Smoking cessation for psychotic patients facing compulsory treatment in a French inpatient psychiatric unit
Annie Viala, Nadia Benathzmane, Françoise Cornic
Compulsory admission to a Portuguese psychiatric hospital: retrospective study of 497 involuntary admissions
Sofia Brissos, Ana Carita, Fernando Vieira
The ethical dilemma of coercion in psychiatry – a transcultural aspect
Ahmed Okasha
Absconding of patients on acute psychiatric wards
Gisa Zenner, Ingrid Munk
Coercion in psychiatry: still an instrument of political misuse?
Rob Keukens, Robert van Voren
Outcome of patients hospitalized by public authorities in a public mental health sector
Françoise Cornic, Fabien Beghelli, Marie-Noëlle Vacheron
Role of substance abuse in requirement of physical restraint of psychiatric patients in emergency setting
Domagoj Vidovic, Petrana Brecic, Aleksander Haid, Vlado Jukic
70 Years of coercion in German psychiatric Institutions, experienced and witnessed
Dorothea Buck
Born to be free: the influence of raising the awareness of the nursing staff to the reduction of the use of physical restraints on restraint orders, hours of restraint and the numbers of patients restrained – a retrospective study
Sagit Dahan, Galit Levi, Pnina Behrbalk, Yuval Melamed, Avi Bleich
Mandated community treatment: a promising concept for world psychiatry?
John Monahan
Use of seclusion and restraint, and its relationship to the patient's gender – a retrospective multi-center study from three departments' of acute emergency psychiatry
Maria Knutzen
Consensual vs. coercive treatment: new manifestations of an old dilemma
Paul Appelbaum
Use of coercive measures in a psychiatric sub-acute unit. 6-month review
N Moreiras, S Roda, Joan S Ribas, E Vicens, M Torres, R Moyano, Carmen M Artero
Is it possible to define a best practice standard for coercive treatment in psychiatry?
Norman Sartorius
Pressure and perceived coerciveness in an assertive community treatment program: an exploratory study
Eric Latimer, Anne G Crocker, Olivier Farmer, A Todd Jenkins
Psychiatry and the law: do the fields agree in their views on coercive treatment?
Julio Arboleda-Florez
Principles of compulsory psychiatric inpatient treatment
Andrey Dmitriev, Irina Vinnikova, Natalia Lazko, Anna Ospanova, Oxana Gouzenko
Determinants of perceived coercion and outcome in involuntarily committed patients
Antonius WB van Baars, Cornelis L Mulder
Compulsory treatment and the problem of safety in psychiatric hospitals
Victor Fukalov
Continuity of care after involuntary admission: does integration of mental healthcare matter?
Andre Wierdsma
On the outcome of the treatment of mentally disordered criminal offenders (according to §64 German penal code) suffering from addictive disorders
Björn Gericke, Thomas Kallert
Evaluating the use of enforced clozapine in an Australian forensic psychiatric setting: two cases
John Kasinathan, Tony Mastroianni
The relationship between legal coercion and dropout from substance abuse treatment
Brian Perron
Epidemiology of inpatient violence and coercive measures
Tilman Steinert
A comparison in the quality of care among legally coerced and voluntary clients in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs
Brian Perron
Psychological well-being and quality of life of mentally disordered offenders with schizophrenia undergoing an involuntary inpatient treatment
Alla Abdraziakova, Vera Bulygina, Sergey Enikolopov
Epidemiology and models of care for mentally disordered prisoners in Europe – the EUPRIS study
Hans Joachim Salize, Harald Dressing
Follow-up care and general pressure to treatment after discharge from psychiatric ward
Lucie Kalisova, Jiri Raboch, Thomas Kallert
Epidemiology of jail and prison suicides in Austria
Stefan Frühwald, Michaela Seyringer, Teresa Matschnig, Patrick Frottier, Franz König
1-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial comparing seclusion and mechanical restraint in people with serious mental illness
Jan Bergk, Michael Birk, Tilman Steinert
Mental health care in Polish penitentiary system
Tomasz Hadrys, Andrzej Kiejna
Perceived coercion and its determinants at psychiatric admission – are there sex specific patterns?
Ellinor Salander Renberg, Britt-Marie Johansson, Lars Kjellin
Anosognosia and schizophrenia: the ethical intersection of insight, treatment and coercion
James Marley
Attitudes of patients attending a mental health center towards psychiatric hospitalization
Anastasia Mastrogianni, Georgios Papazisis, Georgios Tsenekidis, Constantinos Katsigiannopoulos, Aravella Adamopoulou, Stamatis Donias, Anastasia Karastergiou
Staff members' attitudes towards coercive measures
Jan Bergk, Tilman Steinert
Coercion and psychiatric rehabilitation: a conceptual and ethical analysis
Abraham Rudnick
Compulsory psychiatric treatment of inmates in prisons in Russia
Dmitry Malkin
Forensic psychiatric care for psychotic patients in prison
Rob van den Brink, Klaas van Tuinen, Durk Wiersma
Involuntary admission and hospitalization – clinical data in West Germany
Dirk Richter, Thomas Reker
Involuntary hospitalization – German court proceedings 1992–2005
Andreas Spengler
Housing and use of leverage in mental health treatment
Stephanie LeMelle, John Monahan
Involuntary outpatient treatment: the data and controversy
Marvin Swartz
Is assertive community treatment coercive?
Paul Appelbaum, Stephanie LeMelle
Comparison of the clinical use of individual coercive measures during hospitalization across the EUNOMIA study sites
Jiri Raboch, Lucie Kališová, Thomas Kallert
Relatives' views on involuntary hospital admission in 8 EUNOMIA sites
Andrea Fiorillo, Corrado de Rosa, Flavia Rossano, Lorenza Magliano, Mario Maj, Thomas Kallert, Georgi Onchev, Jiri Raboch, Anastasia Karastergiou, Andrzej Kiejna, Petr Nawka, Lars Kjellin
Patients' subjective quality of life during involuntary treatment in psychiatric hospitals
Joanna Rymaszewska
Coercive measures in six Swiss geronto-psychatric hospitals: a benchmarking project
Domenica Schnider Neuweiler, Renate Bernhardsgrütter
Upgrading community treatment through a mental health court
Heathcote Wales
Adapting ACT for jail diversion: current evidence and needed research
Joseph Morrissey
Effect of coercion, perceived coercion and treatment on criminal justice and psychiatric outcomes
Nahama Broner
Whom should we divert and to where? Looking at arrests in a 10-year cohort study of persons with severe mental illness
William Fisher
A global perspective: what the data from the WHO project Atlas-ID tells us about the type of treatment used towards persons with intellectual disability throughout the world
Jocelin Lecomte
STEP: a continuum of service delivery for person living with a dual diagnosis
Katherine Moxness
Developing good practice guidelines for the administration of covert medication
Donald Lyons, Ros Lyall
Ethical and legal issues in behavioral interventions for treating challenging behavior
Diana Andrea Barron
Comparison of mental health legislation for involuntary treatments across the Commonwealth
Elizabeth Fistein, Tony Holland, Isabel Clare
Introduction to the epidemiology of coercive measures in Spanish closed institutions
Francisco Torres-González, Pilar Nonay, Claudio Hernandez, Luis Fernando Barrios, Ángeles López, José Hervás, Fermín Mayoral, Eloy Girela
Coercive measures in Spanish psychiatric units (EUNOMIA-study)
Fermín Mayoral, Francisco Torres-González, Claudio Hernandez, Luis Fernando Barrios
Coercive measures in general hospitals on non mentally-ill patients
Francisco Torres-González, Claudio Hernandez, José Hervás
Coercive measures on prison inmates with mental disorders
Eloy Girela, Ángeles López, Francisco Torres-González
Learning from experiences: quantitative and qualitative analysis of patient experiences during the inpatient admissions process
Kathleen Sheehan, Tom Burns
Recommendations of Swiss users to reduce aggression and coercive measures in psychiatric wards
Christoph Abderhalden, Gerda Malojer, Gianfranco Zuaboni, Ian Needham
Attitudes toward coercive treatment in West and East: a review
Ali Firoozabadi, Mohammad Jafar Bahredar
Both sides of the story: A dyadic study of patient and clinician experiences during the psychiatric hospital admissions process
Kathleen Sheehan, Tom Burns
The therapeutic relationship in involuntary inpatient care
Christina Katsakou, Stefan Priebe
Engagement, workers' strategies, therapeutic relationships, coercion and outcomes in community mental health services in Northern Ireland
Gavin Davidson
Relationship influences for probationers with mental disorder
Jennifer Skeem
Perceived coercion, therapeutic relationships, and outcomes in community treatment
Beth Angell
Systematic review of qualitative research on coercive treatment
Stefan Priebe
Differences between patients with positive and negative views regarding justification of involuntary admission
Christina Katsakou, Stefan Priebe, Diana Rose, Angela Sweeney, Ksenija Yeeles
Impact of coercive treatments on biographical narratives
Ingrid Sibitz, Michaela Amering, Alexandra Scheutz, Markus Schaffer, Beate Schulze
Restriction of human rights during seclusion and mechanical restraint. Results of a randomized controlled study
Jan Bergk, Tilman Steinert
The need to develop alternative measures to seclusion and restraint
Anu Putkonen
Experiences with a training program in the use of methods other than seclusion and restraint
Anna Bjorkdahl
Involuntary treatment and review and the Victorian human rights charter: uneasy compatibility in the antipodes?
John Lesser
Community Treatment Orders (CTO's): a clinico-ethical perspective from Melbourne, Australia
Gunvant Patel
Psychological models, human rights, and compulsory community mental health care
Peter Kinderman
Extent and pattern of leverage use in community mental healthcare: an exploratory study from the UK
Kathleen Sheehan, Tom Burns
Successfully treating acutely ill patients: does it improve long-term outcome in psychiatric disorders?
Hans-PeterVolz
Dual acting antidepressants: what are the key aspects in terms of short and long term clinical efficacy?
Stefanie Krüger
Early improvement of painful symptoms in MDD: is there an association in achieving remission?
Karl-Jürgen Bär
Consequences of Dutch law on the use of coercive treatment in mania: an example of syndrome specific influence of law on coercive treatment mode
Erwin GTM Hartong
Fusion of mental health and incapacity legislation
George Szmukler, John Dawson
What's wrong with capacity? Capacity as the test of compulsion
Peter Bartlett
Commitment to psychiatric care: what justifies broader criteria for minors?
Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Suvi Turunen, Maritta Välimäki
Outcomes of adolescents treated involuntarily under the Canadian mental health act
David Cawthorpe, TCR Wilkes
Involuntary detained patients' views about risk on admission to hospital
Suzanne Curtis
Many patients do not participate in research. Can results still be generalised?
Ksenija Yeeles, Stefan Priebe, Christina Katsakou
Differences of legal regulations concerning involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in twelve European countries: the legal point of view
Francisco Torres-González, Luis Fernando Barrios
Differences of legal regulations concerning involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in twelve European countries: implications for clinical practice
Thomas Kallert, Joanna Rymaszewska, Francisco Torres-González
A European recommendation on best practice of procedural aspects of mechanical restraint, and forced medication
Anastasia Mastrogianni, Elena Georgiadou, Iosif Iosifidis, Anastasia Karastergiou
AOT and treatment engagement: evidence from interviews with consumers
Bruce Link, Dorothy Castille
Client evaluation of assisted outpatient treatment services
Gerlinde Berghofer
Is breakaway training effective? An audit of one medium secure unit
Peter Ghroum, John Allen
Respecting human rights is the sine qua non for all mental health care and support: the strategy of MindFreedom International
David Oaks
Strategies of drug companies to optimize the sales of their psychiatric drugs
Robert Whitaker
International network of treatment alternatives for recovery – INTAR
Peter Stastny
Co-operation and understanding versus custodialism and violence: user and survivor involvement in services, education, administration and political decision making
Mary Nettle
Historical injustice in psychiatry with examples from Nazi Germany and others: ethical lessons for the modern professional
Rael Strous
Mass murder of psychiatric patients 1939–1945 in Lower Saxonia: administration and execution
Asmus Finzen
Mentally ill and addicted offenders and their treatment in Nazi Germany
Andreas Spengler, Michael van der Haar
The EUNOMIA study design: definitions and implementation in 13 European centers
Thomas Kallert
Comparison of clinical and social outcome of a) legally involuntarily admitted patients and b) of legally voluntarily admitted patients who feel coerced to admission across the EUNOMIA study sites
Matthias Schützwohl, Thomas Kallert
Perceived coercion in the EUNOMIA study groups – a cross-national analysis of its intensity
Lars Kjellin
Monitoring of the Polish Mental Health Act implementation in the years 1996–2005
Wlodzimierz Brodniak, Wanda Langiewicz, Stefan Welbel
Guidelines, process and ethics with the New Zealand Mental Health (compulsory assessment and treatment) Act: striking a balance
Christopher Gale, Richard Mullen, Lily Shue
Collegialism, therapy and mediation – the contribution of experts in Swedish mental health law
Stefan Sjöström, Maritha Jacobsson, Anna Hollander
The "Forced to help" study: study design, methods and epidemiological data
Ingemar Engström
Policies regarding coercive care in Swedish child and adolescent psychiatry
Lars Kjellin
Children's rights to participate in medical decisions, with special reference to coercive treatment
Gustav Svensson
Central ethical issues in coercive treatment of children and adolescents, with special reference to the reasoning of the staff members
Håkan Thorsén
Adolescents' perception of coercive treatment: conclusions and clinical implications
Ingemar Engström
Joint Crisis Plans reduce coercive treatment
Claire Henderson, Chris Flood, Leese Morven, Graham Thornicroft, Kim Sutherby, George Szmukler
Advance directives empower users and need professionals for implementation
Michaela Amering, Markus Schaffer
New research on psychiatric advance directives
Marvin Swartz, Jeffrey Swanson, Eric Elbogen
An integrated concept of empowerment: a way to avoid coercive treatment
Gerhard Ebner, Arnold Frauenfelder, R K (user), W W (user)
Post-incident treatment following coercive measures: a Delphi study
Diana Grywa, Ian Needham
Proposal for a risk management axis in psychiatric classifications
Graham Mellsop
Narcissism in patients admitted to psychiatric acute wards: its relationship to violence, suicidality and other psychopathology
Marit Svindseth, Alv A Dahl
Attempted suicide to be punished or not: professional opinion
BN Raveesh
Involuntary treatment of eating disorders: legal, scientific and ethical dimensions
Laura Dalla Ragione, Cristian Pettinelli, Marta Scoppetta, Sabrina Mencarelli
Involuntary hospitalizations in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Michael Grube, Hans-Joachim Kirschenbauer, Peter Wagner, Dietmar Seehuber, Bernhard Weber
Psychiatric paternalism between Scylla and Charybdis
Bettina Schöne-Seifert
20 years of developing European standards. Fieldwork and ongoing dialogue with governments
Veronica Pimenoff
Reduction in the use of seclusion in a high secure hospital in the UK: a retrospective analysis
Inti Qurashi, Desmond Johnson, Ben Johnson
Frequency and patterns of coercive measures in acute psychiatric wards in Switzerland
Christoph Abderhalden, Ian Needham
Implications of outpatient commitment and perceived coercion for stigma, quality of life and social functioning
Bruce Link
Coerced psychiatric treatment in the community: perspective from England and Wales
Tim Exworthy
Coercion in mandated community treatment: its relativity and effects
Virginia Aldige Hiday
A comparison of the use of coercive measures between patients referred by the police and patients referred by other sources to a psychiatric hospital in Australia
Reshin Maharaj
The involuntary psychiatric treatment and child welfare placements in Finland 1996–2003: a nationwide register study
Ulla Siponen, Maritta Välimäki, Matti Kaivosoja, Mauri Marttunen, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
Joint crisis plans for people with psychosis: economic evaluation of a randomized controlled trial
Chris Flood, Sarah Byford, Claire Henderson, Morven Leese, Graham Thornicroft, Kim Sutherby, George Szmukler
Independent complaint-management in psychiatry
Gudrun Uebele, Johannes Hamann
Complaint-management in psychiatry – a nationwide survey in Germany
Johannes Hamann, Agnes Lienert, Rosmarie Mendel, Gudrun Uebele, Werner Kissling
Inpatient and emergency child and adolescent psychiatry units in Sweden do not use restraint and seclusion: what we have learned
Per-Anders Rydelius
Regulatory, clinical, and educational approaches to eliminating restraint and seclusion
Janice Lebel
Definition and use of coercive measures in old age psychiatry settings in Germany and Wales
Rita Kronstorfer
A comparison between seven Swiss and seven German hospitals concerning the use of coercive measures
Renate Bernhardsgrütter
Legislation and practice of coercive measures during in-patient treatment in 12 European countries: results of a case vignette study
Tilman Steinert, Peter Lepping, Ian Needham
The influence of a systematic risk assessment and a training course in aggression management on seclusion rates in Switzerland: a multi center study
Ian Needham, Christoph Abderhalden
Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research – methodological issues
Robert Klitzman
Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research – conceptual issues
Paul Appelbaum
Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research – research findings
Charles Lidz
Comparison of involuntary hospitalization rates
Marianne Engberg, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Georg Høyer, Lars Kjellin, Maria Sigurjónsdóttir
How can variations in civil commitment rates within and between countries be understood?
Lars Kjellin, Marianne Engberg, Georg Høyer, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Maria Sigurjónsdóttir
Patients' experiences of coercive treatment and coercive measures in psychiatric care
Tuula Wallsten, Lars Kjellin
Eliminating unnecessary physical restraints in the community: case studies from Aceh Province, Indonesia
Andrew Mohanraj, Istvan Patkai, Violeta Bayato
De-escalation in mental health care: a review of non-physical conflict management techniques
Dirk Richter
Seclusion practice: a critical examination of the nurses' decision-making process
Dave Holmes, Jean Daniel Jacob
Urbanisation as a risk indicator for complex psychiatric disorders and forced admissions
Robert Schoevers, Jaap Peen, Jack Dekker
Crisis intervention and acute psychiatry in Amsterdam: 20 years of change? A historical comparison of consultations in 1983 and 2004 – 2005
Jack Dekker, Louk van der Post, Irene Visch, Robert Schoevers
Benchmarking psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) in a metropolitan area
Cecile Gijsbers van Wijk, Jack Dekker, Vincent Koppelmans, Robert Schoevers
A systematic literature review on application and effects of forced admissions
Marieke V van de Ven-Dijkman, Robert Schoevers, Erik Sikkens
The system of coercive (court mandated) medical measures in the Russian Federation
Dmitry Dianov, Maya Maltseva, Vyacheslav Kotov
Routine risk assessment and care evaluation in outpatient forensic psychiatry; feasibility, predictive validity, and outline of a RCT
Rob van den Brink, Nadine Troquete, Gwan Kwee, Anne-marie Schram, Titus van Os, Durk Wiersma
Evaluation of the UK dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) program
Tom Burns, Julia Sinclair, Jenny Yiend
Perceptions and attitudes of the nursing staff towards patient restraint
Ziva Roffe, Marc Gelkopf, Pnina Behrbalk, Yuval Melamed, Avi Bleich
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The use of seclusion and restraint during 15 years – a nationwide study in Finland
Alice Keski-Valkama, Eila Sailas, Markku Eronen, Jouko Lönnqvist, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
Patients' view of seclusion – preliminary report
Alice Keski-Valkama, Markku Eronen, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
The development of a scale to measure staff attitude to coercion
Tonje Lossius Husum, Torleif Ruud