AimsTo examine the extent and nature of coercive practices in mental healthcare and to
consider the ethical, human rights challenges facing the current clinical practices in this …

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 …

Importance Reducing the use of coercion in mental health care is crucial from a human
rights and public health perspective. Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are promising …

Background High levels of hospital readmission (rehospitalisation rates) is widely used as
indicator of a poor quality of care. This is sometimes also referred to as recidivism or heavy …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents that allow users of mental
health services to express their preferences for treatment in future mental health crises. To …

Background Barriers to accessing mental health care during pregnancy and the first
postnatal year (perinatal period) seem to be greater for ethnic minority women; however …

Background Compulsory community treatment (CCT) aims to reduce hospital readmissions
among people with mental illness. However, research examining the usefulness of CCT is …

Background The increasing rate of compulsory admission to psychiatric inpatient beds in
England is worrying. Studying variation between places and services could be key to …

Objective: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) enable users of mental health services to
express their treatment preferences for future mental health crises. PAD completion rates …

Background Despite the scarce evidence for patients' benefits of coercion and its well-
documented negative effects, the use of compulsion is still very common around Europe …