involuntary treatment
Forced medical intervention
Involuntary treatment is medical or psychiatric care administered without a person's consent, typically when authorities determine someone poses a danger to themselves or others, or is incapable of making decisions due to mental illness.
The term appears most often in discussions of psychiatric holds and forced hospitalization: The court ordered involuntary treatment after her third suicide attempt.
Civil liberties advocates debate where to draw the line between protecting individuals and respecting autonomy.
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- guardianshipLegal care of another
- next of kinNearest living family members
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
suicidal ideation · medical ethics · danger to self · catatonia · seclusion · locked ward · patient rights · competency hearings · duty of care · autonomy · coercion · forced medication · advance directives · mental health law · schizophrenia · crisis intervention · detoxification · behavioral therapy
- mental health policymental health courts, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, deinstitutionalization, community care
- psychiatric lawmental health law, mental health courts, 72-hour hold, sectioning, patient rights
- Psychiatry Critiqueanti-psychiatry, overmedicating, overdiagnosis, patient rights, lobotomy
- Psychology HistoryFreud, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jung, William James
- medical decisionsinformed consent, clinical judgment, DNR, do not resuscitate, advance directive
involuntary treatmentinformed consent
Permission given with understanding
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