Aufsatz(elektronisch)#1September 1998
Comments on the Right to Effective Treatment
In: Research on social work practice, Band 8, Heft 5, S. 604-609
ISSN: 1552-7581
Three barriers identified in this response to Corcoran's article preclude a mandated right to effective treatment for persons with mental illness: current lack of any federally mandated right to treatment, deinstitionalization that reduced supervision, and refusing or discontinuing medication—options easily available to the outpatient. The latter two make determining effec tiveness especially difficult.