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Community treatment orders in New Zealand
Many legal mechanisms can be used to authorise compulsory community mental healthcare: leave or conditional discharge for compulsory in-patients; adult guardianship (or incapacity) legislation; treatment as a condition of a community-based criminal sentence, like probation, or of parole from impriso...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507993 |
| Sumario: | Many legal mechanisms can be used to authorise compulsory community mental healthcare: leave or conditional discharge for compulsory in-patients; adult guardianship (or incapacity) legislation; treatment as a condition of a community-based criminal sentence, like probation, or of parole from imprisonment; or a full-fledged community treatment order (CTO) scheme. It is the specific mix of mechanisms employed in a particular jurisdiction that will characterise how that legal system manages the delivery of compulsory (or quasi-consensual) community psychiatric care. |
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