The aim of the present study was to describe how registered nurses in nursing homes ensure legal security, good and safe nursing care and uphold the dignity of nursing home residents with severe dementia without violating residents' integrity. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 charge nurses in a county in central Sweden. The transcribed interviews were examined using manifest an...

BACKGROUND There has been considerable interest in normative ethics regarding how and when coercive care can be justified. However, only a few empirical studies consider how professionals reason about ethical aspects when assessing the need for coercive care for adults, and even less concerning children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine and describe how professionals documen...

Hunger strikes are commonly repressed in prison and seen as disruptive, coercive, violent. strikers their advocates insist that incarcerated persons have a right to hunger strike, which protects them against repression force-feeding. Physicians medical ethicists generally ground this the refuse treatment; lawyers legal scholars derive it from persons’ free speech rights. Neither account adequat...

BACKGROUND The knowledge of the impact of coercion on psychiatric treatment outcome is limited. Multiple measures of coercion have been recommended. The aim of the study was to examine the impact of accumulated coercive incidents on short-term outcome of inpatient psychiatric care METHODS 233 involuntarily and voluntarily admitted patients were interviewed within five days of admission and at...

Coercive control is central to distinguishing between Johnson's (2008) 2 main types of intimate partner violence: (a) coercive controlling violence and (b) situational couple violence. Approaches to assessing coercive control, however, have been inconsistent. Using data from 2 projects involving divorcing mothers (N = 190), the authors compared common analytic strategies for operationalizing co...

Coercive treatment with antipsychotic drugs was commonly used in German psychiatric institutions until it became a topic of substantial medical, legal and ethical controversy. In 2011 and 2012, several landmark decisions by Germany’s Constitutional Court and Federal Supreme Court challenged this practice in all but life-threatening emergencies. In March 2013, the new legal provisions governing ...

In coercive diplomacy, coercers have two basic objectives. First, they want to wrest the largest possible concessions from the target. Second, they want to win without having to pay the costs of war. Yet these two objectives are often in tension: demanding larger concessions carries a greater risk of war. Avoiding war, by contrast, may require backing down in defeat. How do coercers balance the...

Recent research in the United States has argued that threat of confirming “racist cop” stereotype may paradoxically increase propensity for coercive policing by depressing officers’ self-legitimacy. The current study aimed to assess influence on self-legitimacy and their attitudes toward force an Australian jurisdiction. An online survey was completed 306 frontline officers Queensland, Australi...

Coercive treatment comprises compulsory admission of patients as well as coercive treatment measures. Both are sometimes inevitable elements of psychiatric care, with the aim to prevent danger from patients and other persons. The stigma of mental illness is still one of the most challenging treatment obstacles. It is not limited to patients and their families, but is also attached to treatment ...