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  • Title: [Compulsory outpatient treatment and mental health care: aspects of the legal discussion from the European and Israeli perspective].
    Author: Hegendörfer G.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 2007 Apr; 34 Suppl 2():S227-32. PubMed ID: 17394115.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Recent German legal initiatives for ordering compulsory outpatient treatment in mental health care are discussed and contrasted with regulations from other European countries and Israel. METHODS: The legal basis for such coercive measures is comparatively assessed by use of these documents. RESULTS: European countries seem somewhat hesitant to incorporate compulsory outpatient treatment into their civil legislation frameworks. Legal initiatives on this issue in Germany were rejected both on the level of the Federal civil law, and on the State-level of public administrative law. CONCLUSION: From the legal point of view reasons against compulsory outpatient treatment in mental health care are embedded in the constitutional law and in international human rights.
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