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MENUHow out-patient psychiatric care without patient consent has developed in Sweden. A socio-political comparison with Norway, the United Kingdom and New York Volume 93, issue 10, Décembre 2017
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PhD, Associate Professor Department of Social Work, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Suède
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- Key words: compulsory care, constraint, out-patient care, health policy, comparative study, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, United States
- DOI : 10.1684/ipe.2017.1724
- Page(s) : 847-53
- Published in: 2017
This article aims to understand how compulsory community care (CCC) has become a solution in mental health policy in so many different legal and social contexts during the last twenty-five years. The introduction of CCC in Sweden is used as a case in point, which is then contrasted against events in Norway, England/Wales and New York State.