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Communication, Confidentiality and Consent in Mental Health Care
Ryan, C; Callaghan, Sascha; Large, MPublished 2014-01-01Families and friends play a vital role in the care and support of people with serious mental illness. However, caregivers often complain that treating teams do not adequately inform them of their loved one’s condition and ...Open AccessArticle -
Community treatment orders in Australia: rates and patterns of use.
Light, E; Kerridge, I; Ryan, C; Robertson, MPublished 2012-01-01Objectives: Community treatment orders (CTOs) allow clinicians to provide unconsented outpatient treatment to people living with mental illness. Though controversial and of uncertain efficacy, CTOs are used throughout ...Open AccessArticle -
Community treatment orders: the lived experience of consumers and carers in NSW
Robertson, M; Light, E; Boyce, P; Carney, T; Rosen, A; Cleary, M; Hunt, G; O'Connor, N; Ryan, CPublished 2013-01-01There is limited research examining the lived experiences of consumers and carers subject to community treatment orders (CTOs). Between 2009 and 2012, the Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) at the ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
How shortcomings in the mental health system affect the use of involuntary community treatment orders
Light, E; Robertson, M; Kerridge, I; Boyce, P; Rosen, A; Carney, T; Hunt, G; Cleary, M; O'Connor, N; Ryan, CPublished 2016-07-15Objective: To examine stakeholder perspectives on how the operation of the mental health system affects the use of involuntary community treatment orders (CTOs). Methods: A qualitative study consisting of semi-structured ...Open AccessArticle -
The lived experience of involuntary community treatment: a qualitative study of mental health consumers and carers
Light, E; Robertson, M; Boyce, P; Carney, T; Rosen, A; Cleary, M; Hunt, GE; O'Connor, N; Ryan, C; Kerridge, IPublished 2014-01-01Objective: To describe the lived experiences of people subject to community treatment orders (CTOs) and their carers. Method: We recruited 11 participants (five mental health consumers and six carers) through consumer and ...Open AccessArticle -
Long time, no see. Australians with mental illnesses wait too long before independent review of detention
Ryan, C; Callaghan, Sascha; Large, MPublished 2010-01-01Imagine that you found yourself arrested in a New South Wales country town; Dubbo, for example. The local constabulary tell you that you are guilty of some offence and that you are now looking at several weeks inside. You ...Open AccessArticle -
The Many Faces of Risk: A Qualitative Study of Risk in Outpatient Involuntary Treatment.
Light, E; Robertson, M; Boyce, P; Carney, T; Rosen, A; Cleary, M; Hunt, G; O'Connor, N; Ryan, C; Kerridge, IPublished 2015-01-01Objective: This study aimed to derive a conceptualisation of risk in outpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment that has utility and meaning for stakeholders. Methods: Thirty-eight participants –patients, caregivers, ...Open AccessArticle -
Refusing medical treatment after attempted suicide : Rethinking capacity and coercive treatment in light of the Kerrie Wooltorton case
Callaghan, Sascha; Ryan, CPublished 2011-01-01The inquest into the death of Kerrie Wooltorton in Norfolk, England, ignited extensive public debate on the scope of the common law right to refuse medical treatment where a patient is distressed, depressed or actively ...Open AccessArticle -
Risk of Suicide Is Insufficient Warrant for Coercive Treatment for Mental Illness
Callaghan, Sascha; Ryan, C; Kerridge, IPublished 2013-01-01Mental health laws in many jurisdictions currently permit coercive treatment for persons with mental illness who are thought to be at risk of harm to themselves or others. These laws are often used to provide involuntary ...Open AccessArticle -
Risk, capacity and making decisions about CTOs
Robertson, M; Light, E; Boyce, P; Carney, T; Rosen, A; Cleary, M; Hunt, G; O'Connor, N; Ryan, CPublished 2013-01-011. The two customary justifications for 'involuntary' or 'coercive' treatment of mental illness are either: that without treatment the mentally ill person might be likely to seriously harm themselves or others; or, that ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Suicide Risk Assessment: Where Are We Now? [Letter]
Ryan, C; Large, M; Callaghan, SaschaPublished 2013-01-01Patients who present in psychological crisis or after a suicide attempt are more than 50 times more likely than the general population to die by suicide in the following year. They require careful assessment and management. ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
A Week Can be a Long Time in Mental Illness
Ryan, C; Callaghan, SaschaPublished 2011-08-20An erosion of the Mental Health Act is worrying. The safeguards on our human rights hang by a slender thread. In July last year, everyone in NSW had one such safeguard cut away. Its removal, by a simple bureaucratic ...Open AccessArticle, Letter
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