Background Assertive community treatment (ACT) has become one of the cornerstones of care for people with serious mental illnesses. ACT is usually conceptualized as incorporating a multidisciplinary team approach, active and persistent attempts to engage clients, direct provision of comprehensive health and social care, and in-vivo and out-of-hours working. In addition, the service is ongoing, ...

Though we typically think that power is desirable, individuals will sometimes avoid power. One explanation for this behavior some are averse to the responsibility associated with and therefore positions of However, people may also because they perceive it as being inherently negative. This supported by research on lay theories power, which suggests those who endorse coercive theory powerful man...

Violent coercive mating initiation is typical for animals with sexual conflict over mating. In these species, the coevolutionary arms-race between female defenses against coercive mating and male counter-adaptations for increased mating success leads to coevolutionary chases of male and female traits that influence the mating. It has been controversial whether one of the sexes can evolve traits...

PURPOSE The study evaluated whether seclusion and coercive incidents would be reduced in extent and number if involuntary medication was the first choice of intervention. Patients admitted to an acute psychiatric ward were randomly allocated to two groups. In Group 1, involuntary medication was the intervention of first choice for dealing with agitation and risk of violence. In Group 2, seclusi...

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The thesis focuses on the solution of both coercive and semi–coercive contact problems by using the Boundary Element Tearing and Interconnecting (BETI) method, which represents a boundary element counterpart of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method. The BETI approach, which uses “tearing” the domain into non–overlapping subdomains and subsequent “gluing” along the artific...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, seclusion is historically the measure of first choice in dealing with aggressive incidents. In 2010, the Mediant Mental Health Trust in Eastern Netherlands introduced a policy prioritising the use of enforced medication to manage aggressive incidents over seclusion. The main goal of the study was to investigate whether prioritising enforced medication over seclusi...