Research seminar
Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 12.45 - 1.45pm
Venue: Boardroom 2, 2nd floor Hunter Wing, St George’s, University of London
Cranmer Terrace, Tooting SW17 0RE
Information and bookings: Johanna Moloney, tel +44 (0)20 8725 3924 or email j.moloney@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Consumer perspectives on therapeutic coercion in community mental health services
A qualitative study (grounded theory) on mental health users and carers who have been detained under the mental health act due to non compliance with medication, presented by Iris Gault, Principal Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing.
Lunch will be provided from 12.45pm.
Mental healthcare is subject to continuous debate over the tension between caring for those with mental health problems and protecting the public. Recent statistical evidence suggests that any threat to the public is small and indeed diminishing. Nonetheless, Britain has a new Mental Health Act (Department of Health 2007) that includes measures to increase surveillance and compulsory treatment. One such change is the introduction of Supervised Community Treatment, similar to Community Treatment Orders operating in other countries. Supervised Community Treatment has been introduced to address the issue of mental health service users thought to repeatedly relapse due to non or partial compliance with medication. This seminar draws on a qualitative study, using the grounded theory method, to analyse service user and carer perspectives on medication compliance and their experience of compulsory treatment. Findings suggest that although initially reluctant to comply with medication, service users are aware of their need for treatment but experience difficulty in accessing acceptable and effective treatment.
About the Faculty Research Seminar Series
This fortnightly seminar series aims to: share the research being undertaken in the Faculty, offer an opportunity for debate and exchange of ideas, and provide an opportunity for meeting others interested in health and social care research. The series is hosted by Professor Vari Drennan and Mary Halter.
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