Toward an ethical standard for coerced mental health treatment: Least restrictive or most therapeutic?

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-246

  Olsen, Douglas P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BENEFICENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; FREEDOM; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

BENEFICENCE; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MINORS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032149654     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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5. See note 2 above; J. Klein, "The Least Restrictive Alternative: More About Less," Psychiatric Quarterly 55, no. 2-3 (1983): 106-14.
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9. See note 2 above.
10. Klein, "The Least Restrictive Alternative," see note 4 above.