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Sarah L Starks1, Erin L Kelly1,2, Enrico G Castillo1,3
1Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Purpose:
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs can compel treatment-refusing individuals to participate in mental health treatment via civil court order. In California's AOT programs, individuals first must be offered 30 days of outreach services and can accept services voluntarily. This study examines the use of outreach strategies in an AOT program with the potential for voluntary or involuntary enrollment.
Methods:
Outreach staff completed a survey in which they reported and rated outreach strategies and barriers to treatment for 487 AOT-referred individuals.
Results:
Outreach staff reported using a broad array of strategies to persuade and engage clients. Supportive and persuasive strategies were most common. More coercive strategies, including court order, were used when needed. More clients enrolled voluntarily (39.4%) than involuntarily (7.2%).
Conclusions:
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment.
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