Coercion is an element of some treatments in psychiatry and it is contemplated in legislation, which often dictates parameters for involuntary admissions and use of restrictive treatments. A trend in the past years has been to widen the parameters required for commitment, thus extending coercive elements of psychiatric treatments to less immediate situations and into the community as in asserti...

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The Division of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry (ICAP) is part of the Department of Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). Its mission is to provide quality, culturally tailored, and trauma-informed mental health services for youth (from birth to age 24) and their families as part of a comprehensive, coordinated approach to care across the dev...