Resisting Variables - Service User/Survivor Perspectives on Researching Coercion

Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 213-234

  Russo, Jasna ^a   Wallcraft, Jan ^b,c  

^a Mental Disability Advocacy Centre   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'survivors of psychiatry'; Composition and perception of the 'sample'; Electro convulsive therapy (ECT); Limitations of psychiatric research on coercion; Redirecting the research focus; Research questions and methodologies; Resisting variables service user survivor perspectives on researching coercion; Rethinking treatment outcomes; Towards comprehensive research on coercion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861806168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470978573.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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