DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deinstitutionalisation, Unintended Consequences, Neoliberalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jijian Voronka

Document Summary

Tranquil prisons: chemical incarceration under community treatment orders (57-93). Toronto: university of toronto press: discuss and provide a critique of the treatment rights" approach to community. Treatment orders (ctos) using information from the reading: cto - it sets out the terms under which a person must accept medication and therapy, counselling, management, rehabilitation and other services while living in the community. They do it in order to get out and basically you have these officials following you to ensure you are taking your medicine and still getting treatment. If you don"t comply you can be readmitted into the institution or forced to take the medicine: rests on the idea that mad people cannot make decisions for themselves. Issue of capacity or insight is a big issue. Once someone is found incapable we can put them on the cto which they must follow: administering drugs against their will is a form of violence and against their rights.