Psychiatric advance directives and social workers: an integrative review.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Dorn, Richard A. Van Scheyett, Anna M. Swanson, Jeffrey W. Swartz, Marvin S.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to express their wishes for future psychiatric care and to authorize a legally appointed proxy to make decisions on their behalf during incapacitating crises. PADs are viewed as an alternative to the coercive interventions that sometimes accompany mental health crises for people with mental illness. Insofar as coercive interventions can abridge clients' autonomy and self-determination--values supported by the NASW Code of Ethics--social workers have a vested interest in finding ways to reduce coercion and increase autonomy and self-determination in their practice. However, PADs are also viewed as having the potential to positively affect a variety of other clinical outcomes, including, but not limited to, treatment engagement, treatment satisfaction, and working alliance. This article reviews the clinical and legal history of PADs and empirical evidence for their implementation and effectiveness. Despite what should be an inherent interest in PADs and the fact that laws authorizing PADs have proliferated in the past decade, there is little theoretical or empirical research on PADS in the social work literature.
Starting Page	2054
Ending Page	2057
Page Count	4
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PubMed reference number	20408357v1
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	2
Journal	Social work
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Advance Directive - Proxy Advance Directives Clients Identity Crisis Mental disorders Review [Publication Type] Social Work (discipline) mental health
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article