Publications from the Otago CTO Study

2010

2010, 'Community Treatment Orders', J Dawson, chapter 14 of Gostin, Bartlett Fennell, McHale, McKay eds, The Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 513-514

2010, 'Coping with Compulsion: Women's Views of Being on a Community Treatment Order', A Gibbs, Australian Social Work, 63: 2, 223-233

2009

2009, ‘Community Treatment Orders: how ethical without experimental evidence?’, T Burns and J Dawson, Psychological Medicine, 39, 1583-86

2009, ‘Community treatment orders in New Zealand’, J Dawson, International Psychiatry, 6, 59-60; available at http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/IPc6n3.pdf

2009, ‘Concepts of liberty in mental health law’, J Dawson, Otago Law Review, 12, 23-36

2008

2008, ‘Community treatment orders and human rights’, J Dawson, Law in Context, Special Issue: International Trends in Mental Health Laws, 26, 148-159

2008, In Debate: ‘Community treatment orders are not a good thing’, J Dawson and T Burns, British Journal of Psychiatry, 193, 97-100 (freely available from the Journal’s website)

2008, ‘Insight and use of community treatment orders’, J Dawson, R Mullen, Journal of Mental Health, 17, 269-280 (England)

 

2007

2007, 'Factors influencing the rate of use of community treatment orders', J Dawson, Psychiatry, 6, 42-44.

2007, 'Concepts of liberty in mental health law', J Dawson, inaugural professorial lecture, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, September 2007.

 

2006

2006, 'Family perspective on community treatment orders: a New Zealand study', R Mullen, A Gibbs, J Dawson, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 52, 469-478 (England)

2006, ‘Fault-lines in community treatment order legislation’, J Dawson, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 29, 482-494 (North America)

2006, ‘Dilemmas for clinicians in use of Community Treatment Orders’, R Mullen, J Dawson, A Gibbs, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 29, 535-550 (North America)

2006, ‘Community Treatment Orders for People with Serious Mental Illness: A New Zealand Study’, A Gibbs, J Dawson, R Mullen, British Journal of Social Work, 36, 1085-1100 (England)

 

2005 - 2001

2005, Community Treatment Orders: International Comparisons, J Dawson, Otago University Print, Dunedin, 181pp

2005, A summary of the main findings in the above report:

2005, ‘How patients in New Zealand view community treatment orders’, A Gibbs, J Dawson and R Mullen, Journal of Mental Health 14, 35-368 (England)

2004, ‘How mental health clinicians view community treatment orders: a national New Zealand survey’, S Romans, J Dawson, R Mullen, A Gibbs, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 836-841 (Australia)

2004, ‘Maori Experience of Community Treatment Orders in Otago, New Zealand’, A Gibbs, J Dawson, H Forsyth, R Mullen and Te Oranga Tonu Tanga (Maori Mental Health Team), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 830-835 (Australia)

2003, 'Ambivalence about Community Treatment Orders', J Dawson, S Romans, A Gibbs, N Ratter, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 26, 243-255 (North America)

2001, 'The use of Community Treatment Orders in NZ: early findings',  J Dawson, S Romans, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 35, pp 190-195 (Australia)