Care without coercion – mental health rights, personal recovery and trauma‐informed care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandy Watson (0000-0002-8885-6203, corresponding author), Kath Thorburn, Michelle Everett (0000-0002-0206-0387), Karen R Fisher (0000-0002-0828-6395) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 529-549 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2014.tb00327.x |
| OpenAlex | W1608144406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 22 |
Australian mental health services continue to use involuntary measures in response to consumers' mental distress. Regardless of the intent behind these practices, the experience of being forced to receive treatment, be secluded or restrained is traumatic and can cause further distress and harm. Other parts of the health or social service system have shifted to approaches that emphasise agency, social context, prevention, and rights. Three frameworks currently used in mental health services – human rights, personal recovery, and trauma‐informed – are consistent with a shift away from the use of force. We applied these frameworks to the text of the National Standards for Mental Health Services 2010 to analyse the degree to which it reflects a shift. We also analysed the public text of speakers' notes from the Care Without Coercion Conference 2012 concerning lived experiences of force in mental health services. The analysis highlights force in many aspects of policy. The findings have implications for directions of change, including freedom from violence; support for decision making; access and choice about community and inpatient options; safety and risk management; and greater understanding of current policy frameworks through engagement with people with lived experience about the options and impact of support processes that exclude the use of force
Agency (philosophy · Coercion (linguistics · Context (archaeology · Harm · Health care · Mental distress · Mental health · Political science · Project commissioning · Psychiatry · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |