Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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EXPLORING PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ADULTS INVOLUNTARILY ADMITTED TO PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT SETTINGS: A SCOPING REVIEW.

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Psychosocial programmes intended to mitigate the distress and loss of autonomy of compulsory psychiatric admission rest on a body of only twenty-two heterogeneous studies with inconsistent clinical outcomes and little long-term follow-up, which is a thinner foundation than the growing policy enthusiasm for trauma-informed and rights-based inpatient care implies.

J Ment Health. 2026;35(5):638-657.