Assessment Team Recommendations on the Continuation of Involuntary Commitment in Poland
Assessment Team Recommendations on the Continuation of Involuntary Commitment in Poland
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Ziółkowska, Justyna
Grzyb, Tomasz
Doliński, Dariusz
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2022
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Journal of Law and Medicine
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2
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29
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622-634
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1320-159X
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This study explores explicit justifications for recommendations regarding patients' continuing detention in forensic psychiatric wards. We are interested in what arguments are used in recommendations for the continuing detention of involuntarily committed patients made by assessment teams for legal proceedings. Our frequency analysis shows that assessment teams refer predominantly to arguments related to the mental state of the detainee. When recommending a change of security level, the assessment teams frequently refer to behavioural factors. However, very rarely does such argumentation appear in recommendations for continuation of detention at the same security level. Additionally, our qualitative analysis shows a very high level of certainty with which pronouncements about patients' behaviour are made, typically in the absence of any social/institutional context. Our study shows that assessment teams tend to opt for safe decisions that are unlikely to be challenged by legal proceedings and that allow them full control over the patient.
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involuntary commitment
psychiatric detention
mentally disordered offenders
mixed-methods study
psychiatric detention
mentally disordered offenders
mixed-methods study
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