Sonia Johnson, Mary Birken, Patrick Nyikavaranda, Ariana Kular, Rafael Gafoor, Jordan Parkinson, Chloe Hutchings-Hay, Thomas Gant, Jazmin Molai, Jessica Rivera, James Fenwick, Caroline Bendall, Louise Blakley, Theresa Bacarese-Hamilton, Valerie Christina White, Mark Keith Holden, Janet Seale, Jackie Hardy, Kathleen Lindsay Fraser, Lizzie Mitchell, Barbara Lay, Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Paul McCrone, Nick Freemantle, Lisa Wood, Fiona Lobban, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans
BACKGROUND: Rates of compulsory (also known as involuntary) detention under mental health legislation have been rising over several decades in countries including England. Avoiding such detentions should be a high priority given their potentially traumatic nature and departure from usual ethical principles of consent and collaboration. Those who have been detained previously are at high risk of being detained again, and thus a priority group for preventive interventions. In a very sparse literature, interventions based on crisis planning emerge as having more supporting evidence than other approaches to preventing compulsory detention...
February 20, 2024: Pilot and Feasibility Studies