Reframing involuntary treatment as a sentinel event: a model for improving rights-based mental health care
This approach may help align mental health services with CRPD principles, reduce involuntary treatment, and enhance accountability, legitimacy, and foster collaborative relationships between users and providers. It may also help overcome the current impasse around coercive practices by enabling the identification and analysis of the structural and cultural mechanisms that sustain them over time, thereby opening up new possibilities for their management and overcoming.
Authors
- Giulia Cossu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1245-016X)
- Massimo Tusconi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-4740)
- Thurayya Zreik
- Michela Atzeni
- Mauro Giovanni Carta
Institutions
- United States Department of Justice (US)
- University of Cagliari (IT)
- Popular University of Cesar (CO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1712756
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00