- Oral presentation
- Open Access
Coercion and capacity to consent
- Gwen Adshead1
BMC Psychiatry20077
(Suppl 1)
:S30
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-7-S1-S30
© Adshead; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
- Published: 19 December 2007
Keywords
- Public Health
- Mental Illness
- Social Interaction
- Individual Factor
- Cognitive Capacity
What does the capacity to consent to treatment entail and what factors influence it? To date, most research has focussed on individual factors that impair capacity to consent to treatment, such as intelligence, cognitive capacity and symptoms of mental illness. In this presentation, I want to explore the social and interpersonal factors that influence capacity to consent. I discuss the complexity of individual and social interactions and discuss coercion in two forms; overt coercion such as is found in mental hospitals, and relational coercion, arising from dependency needs [1].
Authors’ Affiliations
(1)
Broadmoor Hospital Admin Building, Crowthorne, RG45 7EG, UK
References
- Adshead G: A different voice in psychiatric ethics. Health Care Ethics and Human Values. Edited by: Fulford KWM, Dickenson D, Muray TH. 2002, Oxford: Blackwell, 56-62.Google Scholar
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© Adshead; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd.
