Written by Deborah Aluh and JM Caldas de Almeida
What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
Portugal has been making concerted efforts to reduce the use of coercion in mental health care in the last 25 years. A new Mental Health Act (Law number 36) was passed in 1998, which established the principles of…
Written by Dr Veikko Pelto-Piri and Dr Anna Björkdahl
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What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
According to the Swedish Law on compulsory psychiatric care (LPT), coercive care may be given if the patient suffers from a serious mental disorder and has an absolute need of…
FOSTREN Country blogs – Norway by Tonje Lossius Husum & Jorun Rugkåsa with input from Kent Jensen (Norwegian network for research on coercion ‘TvangsForsk’)
What is your country’s stand on coercion reduction?
Coercive processes permitted in Norway
In Norway, formal coercion is defined based on the Norwegian mental health law (1). This law permits…
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FOSTREN Country blog - Greece by C. Bora, A. Douzenis, C. Ioannou, and S. Stylianidis.
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What is coercion and why does FOSTREN want to reduce it?
Coercion occurs in this context when a person receiving mental health care (i.e. a patient or service user)…