A rejection of involuntary treatment in mental health social work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12902245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Maylea (0000-0003-3688-0487, RMIT University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 336-352 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2016.1246585 |
| OpenAlex | W2548388814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 47 |
Social work has long taken a pragmatic approach to involuntary mental health treatment, attempting to reconcile social work values and ethics with the perceived need for involuntary treatment. This paper draws on developments in law, psychiatry, psychology and sociology to challenge this acceptance and social work’s implicit support of involuntary treatment. Mental health social work is shown to be characterised by neoliberal influences of risk management and conservative professionalism. The implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are examined to highlight the discrimination inherent in involuntary treatment on the basis of diagnosis, and to demonstrate the importance of adopting an approach of supported, not substituted, decision-making. The right to choose treatment is suggested as a guiding principle for rethinking mental health service provision. Contemporary research on risk management is presented to challenge the justification of involuntary treatment as a means to manage dangerousness, and the ascendant recovery approach is shown to be incompatible with coercion in involuntary treatment. Finally, social workers are encouraged to consider theoretical and practical alternatives in the new paradigm of mental health social work which rejects involuntary treatment
Coercion (linguistics · Involuntary commitment · Involuntary treatment · Mental health · Mental health law · Political science · Psychiatry · Work (physics · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work
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Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making
Reframing involuntary treatment as a sentinel event
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Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental Health Placements
Accounting for Social Perspectives
The end of social work
Bounded political contestation
Supported Decision-Making
Sociology at the crossroads and other essays
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Encyclopedia of Social Work
What is the future of social work
Australia's Individualised Disability Funding Packages
Ethics in Qualitative Research
Being Assessed under the 1983 Mental Health Act—Can it Ever be Ethical
Coercion in the Community
Aces High
Negotiated Coercion
Legal capacity and detention
Involuntary Mental Health Treatment
Beyond Balancing Competing Needs
Risk, Recovery and Capacity
Using Social Work Theory and Values to Investigate the Implementation of Community Treatment Orders
Mental health and citizenship
International Perspectives on the Use of Community Treatment Orders
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |