Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment

Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment
Author: Deborah L. Dennis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1475797273

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.

Mad Science

Mad Science
Author: Stuart A. Kirk
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2013-04-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1412849764

When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science. Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome. This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. Mad Science is a must read for all specialists in the field as well as for the informed public.

The Oxford Handbook of Coercive Relationship Dynamics

The Oxford Handbook of Coercive Relationship Dynamics
Author: Thomas J. Dishion
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2016
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199324557

Presents models of the role of close relationships in psychopathology and development Provides evidence-based interventions that treat and prevent antisocial behavior Integrates genetic and environmental models of behavior.

Community Mental Health

Community Mental Health
Author: Jessica Millet Rosenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0415950104

An interdisciplinary resource for students preparing to become mental health professionals, those functioning as practitioners in community mental health settings, and policy planners engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services.

Forced Into Treatment

Forced Into Treatment
Author: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Government Policy
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1994
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780873182058

What role does coercion play in psychiatric treatment? Does it increase or decrease the chances for successful outcome? Forced Into Treatment discusses various aspects of coercion ranging from the role of coercion in initiation psychiatric treatment to its effect on treatment process and outcome. The book demonstrated that a patient who is appropriately forced into treatment can more from initial defiance, through reluctant compliance, to a successful therapeutic alliance and a successful outcome. In addition, Forced Into Treatment addresses the role of coercion, power, and authority in socializing children the use of coercive social pressure as a motivation to seek help the effects of court-ordered treatment for people who have refused psychiatric help the historical and legal aspects regarding coercive treatment

Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy

Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy
Author: Nicola Glover-Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780406946775

A critical, in-depth analysis of the development of contemporary mental health law in its social and political contexts.

Tranquil Prisons

Tranquil Prisons
Author: Erick Fabris
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442612290

Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications after leaving hospitals. However, survivors attest that forced treatment used as a restraint can feel like torture, while the consequences of withdrawal can also be severe. A brave and innovative book, Tranquil Prisons is a rare academic study of psychiatric treatment written by a former mental patient. Erick Fabris's original, multidisciplinary research demonstrates how clients are pre-emptively put on chemical agents despite the possibility of alternatives. Because of this practice, patients often become dependent on psychiatric drugs that restrict movement and communication to incarcerate the body rather than heal it. Putting forth calls for professional accountability and more therapy choices for patients, Fabris's narrative is both accessible and eye-opening.

Mad Science

Mad Science
Author: Stuart A. Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351507931

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.When it comes to understanding and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analysis of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science.This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists in the field as well as to the informed public.

Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws
Author: Bernadette McSherry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847315968

Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses. 'Rights-based legalism' is a term used to describe mental health laws that refer to the rights of individuals with mental illnesses somewhere in their provisions. The advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities makes it timely to rethink the way in which the rights of individuals to autonomy and liberty are balanced against state interests in protecting individuals from harm to self or others. This collection addresses some of the current issues and problems arising from rights-based mental health laws. The chapters have been grouped in five parts as follows: - Historical Foundations - The International Human Rights Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Gaps Between Law and Practice - Review Processes and the Role of Tribunals - Access to Mental Health Services Many of the chapters in this collection emphasise the importance of moving away from the limitations of a negative rights approach to mental health laws towards more positive rights of social participation. While the law may not always be the best way through which to alleviate social and personal predicaments, legislation is paramount for the functioning of the mental health system. The aim of this collection is to encourage the enactment of legal provisions governing treatment, detention and care that are workable and conform to international human rights documents.