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Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment

A New Frontier in Mental Health Law

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Deborah L. Dennis

    1. Policy Research Associates, Inc., Delmar, USA

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  2. John Monahan

    1. School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology (SSSC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Deborah L. Dennis, John Monahan
      Pages 1-9

  3. Coercion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Coercion to Inpatient Treatment

      • John Monahan, Steven K. Hoge, Charles W. Lidz, Marlene M. Eisenberg, Nancy S. Bennett, William P. Gardner et al.
      Pages 13-28

    3. Outpatient Commitment

      • Virginia Aldigé Hiday
      Pages 29-47

  4. Coercion and Treatment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Coercion and Tenacious Treatment in the Community

      • Ronald J. Diamond
      Pages 51-72

    3. “Coercion” and Leverage in Clinical Outreach

      • Ezra Susser, Brenda Roche
      Pages 73-84

    4. The Perils of Outreach Work

      • Margarita Lopez
      Pages 85-92

  5. The Social Context of Aggressive Community Treatment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Housing as a Tool of Coercion

      • Henry Korman, Diane Engster, Bonnie M. Milstein
      Pages 95-113

    3. Entitlements, Payees, and Coercion

      • Suzan Hurley Cogswell
      Pages 115-125

  6. Research Agenda on Coercion in the Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Research on the Coercion of Persons with Severe Mental Illness

      • Phyllis Solomon
      Pages 129-145

    3. Coercion and Social Control

      • Anne M. Lovell
      Pages 147-166

  7. Coercion in the Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. When Push Comes to Shove

      • Jessica Wilen Berg, Richard J. Bonnie
      Pages 169-196

    3. Regulation from Without

      • Kim Hopper
      Pages 197-212

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 213-219
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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.

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`An important book....I recommend this book for all who are concerned about the outpatient treatment of the mentally ill.'
Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry Law

Editors and Affiliations

  • Policy Research Associates, Inc., Delmar, USA

    Deborah L. Dennis

  • School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    John Monahan

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