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Summary. Social work is perhaps most distinctive for its clear and outspoken commitment toward improving the well-being of society’s vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, while still emphasizing the importance of respecting and defending personal rights and freedoms. Though there is a fundamental necessity for coercion, or its threat, for ...
- Tomi Gomory, Daniel Dunleavy
- 2018
Jan 2, 2018 · Reference Newton-Howes, Tyrer and Weaver 43 The social impact of coercion needs to be considered by public policy and law makers to ensure interventions are not developed that work against the destigmatisation of mental health and do not further alienate a vulnerable group of people. When potentially coercive cultural interventions are implemented, examination of their impact is essential.
- Giles Newton-Howes
- 2010
Early intervention in mental health seeks to improve the wellbeing of as many people as possible, by intervening at an early stage in the onset of illness, or by taking preventative action in ‘at risk’ populations. The paradigm is rhetorically powerful, and it is easy to talk in terms of it helping to deliver rights to health and realise social justice. However, in spite – or perhaps ...
- 2019
Jan 22, 2021 · Abstract. According to much of self-labelled coercion theory, the state is both the ground of egalitarian demands of distributive justice, and the (sole) domain to which such demands apply, in virtue of its exercise of coercive power which only distributive equality can justify. This article argues that, when properly unpacked in its ...
- Miriam Ronzoni
- 2021
Jan 27, 2011 · Coercion is by its very nature hostile to the individual subjected to it. At the same time, it often is a necessary evil: political life cannot function without at least some instances of coercion. Hence, it is not surprising that coercion has been the topic of heated philosophical debate for many decades. Though numerous accounts have been put forth in the literature, relatively little ...
- Jan-Willem van der Rijt
- J.W.vanderRijt@uva.nl
- 2011
May 23, 2021 · Coercive measures are pervasive in mental health and represent the most significant challenges to human rights protections. Coercion is a term used variously; for the purposes of mental health, it is best understood inclusively as the use of threats or physical force as a form of treatment pressure, typically associated with involuntary commitment, forced medication, seclusion, and restraint [].
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Aug 24, 2019 · While coercion of any kind is necessarily a potential threat to freedom, public law enforcement appears as more readily freedom enhancing than private enforcement of right; that creates problems for egalitarian views that see power imbalances between private individuals as a threat to right and promote balancing economic and social power as a solution.
