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KMID : 0614420100350010111
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Mental Health & Social Work
2010 Volume.35 No. 1 p.111 ~ p.140
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Study on Out-Patient Treatment Order
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Seo Mi-Kyung
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Abstract
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Coerced community treatment has been used to achieve the maximum clinical effect in the least restrictive environment, as an alternative of involuntary admission since the de-institturionalism. In South Korea, as the Mental Health Act was amended in 2008, the out patient treatment order system was introduced, but had neither prior de-institutionalism nor specific guidelines, causing a possibility of encroaching on human rights even in the community with the expansion of coerciveness, far from being an alternative of involuntary admission. Hence, this study was aimed to seek the implication of outpatient treatment order in South Korea by looking into the examples in New Zealand that uses the community treatment order very actively, making a special effort to improve the human rights of the persons with mental illness. The out patient treatment order will be able to be an alternative of coercive admission, if the order is taken into a preferential consideration before coercive admission. However, the complaints must be accepted in order to protect the human rights of the mentally ill in the process of order implementation and the mental patients must be assured of attending the case conferences that judge whether to continue with the order. In conclusion, I suggested the procedures to execute the outpatient treatment order system and emphasized the cooperation and networking among mental hospitals, community mental health centers and rehabilitation facilities.
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KEYWORD
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Coerced community treatment, Outpatient treatment order, Alternative of coercive admission, Human rights of the persons with mental illness
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