ABSTRACT
Community treatment orders (CTOs) are legal mechanisms by which an individual with a mental illness and a history of non-compliance and potential for violence can be mandated (against their will) to undergo psychiatric treatment in an outpatient setting. Although CTOs are increasingly being adopted by governments as a means of protecting both mentally ill persons and society itself, their use continues to stimulate considerable debate. While there is some evidence of their potential benefits in promoting treatment compliance and reducing hospital stays, there is concern that they infringe on the mental health client's human rights and freedoms. Consideration of the ethical and practical implications of the use of CTOs must continue. In this paper, some of the most pressing issues are identified and discussed.
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Community Mental Health Services/legislation & jurisprudence , Disclosure/legislation & jurisprudence , Homicide/legislation & jurisprudence , Mandatory Reporting , Mental Disorders/psychology , Adult , Canada , Freedom , Human Rights/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Male , Safety , Universities , VirginiaABSTRACT
Empirical phenomenology and hermeneutic phenomenology, the 2 most common approaches to phenomenological research in psychology, are described, and their similarities and differences examined. A specific method associated with each form of phenomenological inquiry was used to analyze an interview transcript of a woman's experience of work-family role conflict. A considerable degree of similarity was found in the resulting descriptions. It is argued that such convergence in analyses is due to the human capacities of reflection and intuition and the presence of intersubjective meanings. The similarity in the analyses is also encouraging about researchers' ability to reveal meaning despite the use of different methods and the difficulties associated with interpreting meaning.
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Existentialism/psychology , Gender Identity , Psychotherapeutic Processes , Psychotherapy/methods , Adult , Female , Gestalt Theory , Humans , Models, PsychologicalABSTRACT
Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) is an X-linked dominant disease, usually lethal to males. To explain occasional sporadic IP males, the half chromatid mutation model (Gartler & Francke 1975) has been invoked (Lenz 1975). We here report four cases of American Indians with IP. Two girls had sporadic IP. One affected boy's mother had IP. This is the first report of mother-to-son transmission of IP, indicating that a male with an inherited whole chromatid mutation for IP can escape lethality.
