Aims to Reduce Coercive Measures in Forensic Inpatient Treatment: A 9-Year Observational Study

Protecting the human rights is particularly important within the forensic context because patients in forensic psychiatry are not admitted voluntarily and so the treatment itself is of a coercive nature. Coercive measures (i.e., actions against the will of the patient such as forced medication, secl...

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Main Authors: Steffen Lau, Nathalie Brackmann, Andreas Mokros, Elmar Habermeyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00465/full