Challenging contemporary mental health policy: Time to assuage the coercion?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 477-484

  Hannigan, Ben ^a   Cutcliffe, John ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Care in the community; Coercion; Health service users; Law; Mass media; Mental health policy; Nursing; Risk

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MASS MEDIA; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 0036511301     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02109.x     Document Type: Article

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