Press Release: How Mental Health Staff Unintentionally Use Coercion

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A study from Bochum has been awarded the Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy by the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, and Neurology

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Funding

This work was published as part of the SALUS research project, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01GP1792).

Original publications


The DGPPN Award was presented for the following paper:
Christin Hempeler, Esther Braun, Sarah Potthoff, Jakov Gather, Matthé Scholten: When Treatment Pressures Become Coercive: A Context-Sensitive Model of Informal Coercion in Mental Healthcare, in: The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2232754

Press Contact

Christin Hempeler
Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Tel.: +49 234 32 28582
E-Mail: christin.hempeler@ruhr-uni-bochum.de