The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org) is a national nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. TAC promotes laws, policies, and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supports the development of innovative treatments for and research into the causes of severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Friday, July 06, 2007
How families feel about AOT
The Otago community treatment order study has provided us with valuable information on how AOT has been working in New Zealand. There, researchers examining the views of participants concluded that, “the usefulness of community treatment orders is accepted by most patients under them in New Zealand, as well as by most physicians.” Their most recent study, “Family perspective on community treatment orders: a New Zealand study” carries this research over to consumers’ families, a group whose experiences and views of their family members have been little studied.