ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014
Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: qualitative study.
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- 'Traumatic to Say the Least; It Still Affects Me': Consumer Perspectives on Community Treatment Orders in Australia.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Triadic Perspectives on Decision Making in Psychiatry: A Qualitative Study on Service Users, Caregivers and Healthcare Professionals in Latvia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Community Treatment Orders in Australia in the Context of International Literature: A Narrative Review of Consumers, Families and Health Professionals' Perspectives.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Review
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- Patients' experiences with coercive mental health treatment in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Finding Common Ground for Diverging Policies for Persons with Severe Mental Illness.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Review
- An exploration of perceived coercion into psychological assessment and treatment within a low secure forensic mental health service.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2020Article
- Factors influencing use of community treatment orders and quality of care that people receive: results of a national survey in England and Wales.BJPsych bulletin · 2019Article
- Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Trust and Community Treatment Orders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: a qualitative study of ACT providers' experiences with community treatment orders.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- How clinicians make decisions about CTOs in ACT: a qualitative study.International journal of mental health systems · 2018Article
- Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature.BJPsych international · 2017Article
- Associations between compulsory community treatment and continuity of care in a three year follow-up of the Oxford Community Treatment Order Trial (OCTET) cohort.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- What does being on a community treatment orders entail? A 3-year follow-up of the OCTET CTO cohort.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Observational
- Care planning for consumers on community treatment orders: an integrative literature review.BMC psychiatry · 2016Review
- Recall of patients on community treatment orders over three years in the OCTET CTO cohort.BMC psychiatry · 2016Observational
- "Care or control?": a qualitative study of staff experiences with outpatient commitment orders.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeCurrent literature on personal experiences of community treatment orders (CTO) is limited. This paper examines participants' experiences of the mechanisms via which the CTO was designed to work: the conditions that form part of the order and the power of recall. We also report an emergent dimension, legal clout and participants' impressions of CTO effectiveness. This paper will contribute to a fuller picture of how the law is implemented and how CTOs operate in practice.
methodsIn-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 26 patients, 25 psychiatrists and 24 family carers about their experiences and views of CTOs. Data were analysed using the constant comparative method.
resultsAll three sample groups perceived the chief purpose of CTOs to be medication enforcement and that its legal clout was central to achieving medication adherence. Understanding of how the inbuilt mechanisms of the CTO work varied considerably: participants expressed uncertainty regarding the enforceability of discretionary conditions and the criteria for recall. We found mixed evidence regarding whether recall simplified responses to relapse or risk. The range of experiences and views identified within each group suggests that there is no single definitive experience or view of CTOs.
conclusionsThe (perceived) focus of the CTO on medication adherence combined with the variations in understanding within and across groups might not only have consequences for how CTOs are viewed and subsequently experienced, but also for broader goals in patient care and patient and carer involvement.
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