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PLC or TLC: is outpatient commitment the/an answer?

Heathcote W Wales1, Virginia Aldigé Hiday

  • 1Georgetown University Law Center, United States. wales@law.georgetown.edu

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
|November 4, 2006
PubMed
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Outpatient commitment laws (OPC) use persuasion, leverage, or coercion (PLC) to ensure medication adherence for individuals with severe mental illness. An alternative, tender loving care (TLC), uses benefits to encourage compliance.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Public Health
  • Law

Background:

  • Community treatment laws, particularly outpatient commitment (OPC), are debated.
  • The core issue involves legal strategies to ensure medication adherence for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI).
  • Persuade, Leverage, or Coerce (PLC) strategies are contrasted with Tender Loving Care (TLC) approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the empirical need for OPC court orders in managing individuals with SMI.
  • To explore the normative arguments regarding coercion within OPC and its justification.
  • To analyze incentives for community providers to enhance resources and tailor services under OPC.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical analysis of OPC's effectiveness in community retention for individuals with SMI.

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  • Normative ethical and legal analysis of coercion in mental health treatment.
  • Incentive structure analysis for community mental health providers under OPC.

    • Main Results:

    • Evidence supporting the necessity of OPC for community stability in revolving-door SMI cases.
    • Discussion on the ethical permissibility and justification of coercion in OPC.
    • Analysis of how OPC influences provider behavior, resource allocation, and patient engagement.

    Conclusions:

    • OPC may be empirically necessary for some individuals with SMI, but ethical considerations of coercion are paramount.
    • The debate highlights a tension between legal mandates and patient autonomy in mental healthcare.
    • Understanding provider incentives is crucial for effective implementation of community treatment laws.