Book contents
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction A “Paradigm Shift” in Mental Health Care
- 1 The Alchemy of Agency: Reflections on Supported Decision-Making, the Right to Health and Health Systems as Democratic Institutions
- 2 Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3 Reparation for Psychiatric Violence: A Call to Justice
- 4 Divergent Human Rights Approaches to Capacity and Consent
- 5 From Pipe Dream to Reality: A Practical Legal Approach Towards the Global Abolition of Psychiatric Coercion
- 6 The ‘Fusion Law’ Proposals and the CRPD
- 7 Contextualising Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making in the Global South Experiences: of Homeless Women with Mental Health Issues from Chennai, India
- 8 The Potential of the Legal Capacity Law Reform in Peru to Transform Mental Health Provision
- 9 Advancing Disability Equality Through Supported Decision-Making: The CRPD and the Canadian Constitution
- 10 Decisional Autonomy and India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: A Comment on Emerging Jurisprudence
- 11 Towards Resolving Damaging Uncertainties: Progress in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
- 12 ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’: Recent Developments in Mental Health Law Reform in Zambia and Ghana
- 13 Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity in Kenya
- 14 Seher’s “Circle of Care” Model in Advancing Supported Decision Making in India
- 15 The Swedish Personal Ombudsman: Support in Decision-Making and Accessing Human Rights
- 16 Strategies to Achieve a Rights-Based Approach through WHO QualityRights
- 17 The Clubhouse Model: A Framework for Naturally Occurring Supported Decision Making
- 18 Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
- 19 Psychiatric Advance Directives and Supported Decision-Making: Preliminary Developments and Pilot Studies in California
- 20 Community-Based Mental Health Care Delivery with Partners In Health: A Framework for Putting the CRPD into Practice
- 21 Lived Experience Perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – Conceptualising the Realities
- 22 In the Pursuit of Justice: Advocacy by and for Hyper-marginalized People with Psychosocial Disabilities through the Law and Beyond
- 23 The Danish Experience of Transforming Decision-Making Models
- 24 The Use of Patient Advocates in Supporting People with Psychosocial Disabilities
- 25 Users’ Involvement in Decision-Making: Lessons from Primary Research in India and Japan
- 26 Involvement of People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Conditions in Decision-Making to Improve Care in Rural Ethiopia
- References
18 - Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2021
Book contents
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction A “Paradigm Shift” in Mental Health Care
- 1 The Alchemy of Agency: Reflections on Supported Decision-Making, the Right to Health and Health Systems as Democratic Institutions
- 2 Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3 Reparation for Psychiatric Violence: A Call to Justice
- 4 Divergent Human Rights Approaches to Capacity and Consent
- 5 From Pipe Dream to Reality: A Practical Legal Approach Towards the Global Abolition of Psychiatric Coercion
- 6 The ‘Fusion Law’ Proposals and the CRPD
- 7 Contextualising Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making in the Global South Experiences: of Homeless Women with Mental Health Issues from Chennai, India
- 8 The Potential of the Legal Capacity Law Reform in Peru to Transform Mental Health Provision
- 9 Advancing Disability Equality Through Supported Decision-Making: The CRPD and the Canadian Constitution
- 10 Decisional Autonomy and India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: A Comment on Emerging Jurisprudence
- 11 Towards Resolving Damaging Uncertainties: Progress in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
- 12 ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’: Recent Developments in Mental Health Law Reform in Zambia and Ghana
- 13 Supported Decision-Making and Legal Capacity in Kenya
- 14 Seher’s “Circle of Care” Model in Advancing Supported Decision Making in India
- 15 The Swedish Personal Ombudsman: Support in Decision-Making and Accessing Human Rights
- 16 Strategies to Achieve a Rights-Based Approach through WHO QualityRights
- 17 The Clubhouse Model: A Framework for Naturally Occurring Supported Decision Making
- 18 Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
- 19 Psychiatric Advance Directives and Supported Decision-Making: Preliminary Developments and Pilot Studies in California
- 20 Community-Based Mental Health Care Delivery with Partners In Health: A Framework for Putting the CRPD into Practice
- 21 Lived Experience Perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – Conceptualising the Realities
- 22 In the Pursuit of Justice: Advocacy by and for Hyper-marginalized People with Psychosocial Disabilities through the Law and Beyond
- 23 The Danish Experience of Transforming Decision-Making Models
- 24 The Use of Patient Advocates in Supporting People with Psychosocial Disabilities
- 25 Users’ Involvement in Decision-Making: Lessons from Primary Research in India and Japan
- 26 Involvement of People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Conditions in Decision-Making to Improve Care in Rural Ethiopia
- References
Summary
Globally, there is a surprisingly small amount of empirical research into efforts to reduce and prevent ‘coercion’ in mental health settings. Indeed, there is a paucity of empirical evaluation of coercion in mental healthcare more generally. These gaps hamper efforts to create rights-based models of support. This chapter considers the evidential issues around coercion in relation to major debates about legal capacity, mental health and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It examines the prevalent norms of knowledge concerning coercion, including underlying traditions and assumptions, and what is considered ethically desirable. The chapter concludes by recommending more research on reduction and prevention of coercion as a practical and unifying step, but with careful consideration of the epistemic and evidentiary cultures guiding the research.
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