Compulsory admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries.
Danuta WassermanGisèle ApterChris BaekenS BaileyJudit BalazsC BecPrzemyslaw BienkowskiJulio BobesM F Bravo OrtizHenriette BruunÖ BôkeN CamilleriBernardo CarpinelloJana ChihaiEka ChkoniaPhilippe CourtetDoina Constanta Maria CozmanM DavidGeert DomA EsanuPeter G FalkaiW FlanneryK GasparyanG GerlingerP GorwoodO GudmundssonCecile HanonAndreas HeinzM J Heitor Dos SantosA HedlundF IsmayilovN IsmayilovE T IsometsäL IzakovaA KleinbergT KurimayS Klæbo ReitanD Lecic-TosevskiA LehmetsN LindbergK A LundbladG LynchC MaddockU F MaltL MartinI MartynikhinN O MarutaF MatthysR MazaliauskieneG MihajlovicA Mihaljevic PelesV MiklavicP MohrM Munarriz FerrandisM MusalekN NeznanovG Ostorharics-HorvathI PajevićA PopovaP PregeljE PrinsenC RadosA RoigM Rojnic KuzmanJ SamochowiecN SartoriusY SavenkoO SkugarevskyE SlodeckiA SoghoyanD S StoneR Taylor-EastE TeraudsC TsopelasC TudoseS TyanoP VallonR J Van der GaagP VarandasL VavrusovaP VoloshynJ WancataJ WiseZ ZemishlanyF ÖncüS VahipPublished in: European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2020)
We conclude that legal reasons for compulsory admission should be reworded in order to remove stigmatization of the patient, that raising awareness about involuntary admission procedures and patient rights with both patients and family advocacy groups is paramount, that communication about procedures should be widely available in lay-language for the general population, and that training sessions and guidance should be available for legal and medical practitioners. Finally, people working in the field need to be constantly aware about the ethical challenges surrounding compulsory admissions.