Mental Health Connect

Two of our Mental Health Summer Forum speakers Mary O’ Hagan and Steven Segal were interviewed on ‘All in the Mind’ – ABC Radio National regarding their views on coercive treatments. They joined ‘Stephen’ a mental health consumer who had previously been on a Community Treatment Order (CTO).
You can go to the interview here  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2010/2828006.htm  [...]

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Our next speaker is Professor Steven Segal from the University of California Berkeley:

IOPC – requires compliance with the order – take meds, live in particular apartment, go to counselling sessions
what are the consequenes of non compliance – admit to psych hospital for care,
How widespread are the orders? Aus, NZ and the US, under consideration in [...]

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