The social utility of community treatment orders: Applying Girard’s mimetic theory to community-based mandated mental health care

Serious mental illness (SMI) has long posed a dilemma to society. The use of community treatment orders (CTOs), a legal means by which to deliver mandated psychiatric treatment to individuals while they live in the community, is a contemporary technique for managing SMI. CTOs (or a similar legal mec...

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Authors: Jäger, Fiona Isabel (Author) ; Perron, Amélie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2020
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-9
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Girard, René 1923-2015
B Mimesis
Further subjects:B community treatment orders
B René Girard
B Mental Health
B nursing philosophy
B Scapegoat
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