A competency‐based approach to court‐ordered outpatient treatment
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in New Directions for Mental Health Services
- Vol. 1997 (75) , 81-95
- https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.2330237510
Abstract
A quasi‐experimental study of involuntary outpatient treatment in Massachusetts is described and analyzed. Results indicate decreased hospital use by the involuntarily treated outpatients, which may or may not be due to the involuntary intervention itself.Keywords
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