Are consumers on community treatment orders informed of their legal and human rights? A West Australian study

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rolfe ◽  
Bernadette Sheehan ◽  
Rowan Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
Community Treatment Orders

scholarly journals Who’s Talking About Us Without Us? A Survivor Research Interjection into an Academic Psychiatry Debate on Compulsory Community Treatment Orders in Ireland

Laws ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Brosnan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Academic Psychiatry ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Community Treatment Orders ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Compulsory Community Treatment ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

This paper presents a user/survivor researcher perspective to the debate among psychiatrists on the suggested introduction of Community Treatment Orders in Ireland. Critical questions are raised about evidence and the construction of psychiatric knowledge. Important questions include: How is this evidence created? What and whose knowledge have not been considered? Some critical issues around coercion, ‘insight’, and attributions of ‘lack of capacity’ are briefly considered. Further legal considerations are then introduced based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. The paper concludes with a human rights-based appeal to reject the introduction of coercive community treatment in Ireland.

scholarly journals The use of community treatment orders in competent patients is not justified

2017 ◽  
Vol 210 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giles Newton-Howes ◽  
Christopher James Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Community Treatment Orders ◽  
Decision Making Capacity

SummaryEmpirical evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) is at best mixed. We examine CTOs through the prism of human rights and discrimination, bearing the evidence in mind, and argue that a necessary condition for their use is that a person lacks decision-making capacity.

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