New Research Suggests Compulsory Community Treatment Doesn’t Work, UK

An editorial in the November 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry highlights 2 recent studies from Australia - as well as a systematic review of existing research - which have found that compulsory community treatment for people with mental disorders is unlikely to reduce ‘revolving door’ care. In Britain the government has included supervised community treatment in the new Mental Health Act (2007) to address the issue of the ‘revolving door’. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Mental Health on November 1st, 2007