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Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT (2014)
Journal Article

Objective Despite widespread use internationally, there is no convincing evidence that community treatment orders (CTO) (legal regimes making out-patient treatment compulsory), reduce readmission rates or have wider patient benefit. The primary and... Read More about Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT.

Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose Current literature on personal experiences of community treatment orders (CTO) is limited. This paper examines participants’ experiences of the mechanisms via which the CTO was designed to work: the conditions that form part of the order and... Read More about Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study.

Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients (2014)
Journal Article

The emphasis on care in the community in current mental health policy poses challenges for community mental health professionals with responsibility for patients who do not wish to receive services. Previous studies report that professionals employ a... Read More about Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients.

The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Leverage is a particular type of treatment pressure that is used within community mental health services to increase patients’ adherence to treatment. Because leverage involves practitioners making proposals that attempt to influence pat... Read More about The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners.