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Status and Trends of Coercive Measures Across Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

T. Kallert*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Park-Hospital Leipzig, Dresden, Germany Soteria Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Dresden, Germany Medical Faculty, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Abstract

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The presentation will adress the following questions: 1.Do coercive measures in European countries increase? 2.Could coercive measures be minimized? 3.Are coercive measures less effective than voluntary measures? 4.Are alternatives to coercive measures available, and if so which ones? 5.Is coercion always coercion, and does it influence prognosis? 6.What is the current status of the development of clinical guidelines pertaining to the use of coercive measures? 7.Is the use of coercive measures an indicator for the quality of mental health care? 8.Are the main legal problems associated with the use of coercive measures solved? 9.What are the consequences of having answered questions 1.-8.? 10. Are there issues in the field of coercion in psychiatry which have gained recent importance?

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CS01-04
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