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Description
Mental health systems and practitioners have long used coercive practices such as involuntary hospitalization and drug treatment, and coercion has persisted despite the shift almost 70 years ago toward community care. But while the value of coercion is often debated on ethical grounds, coercive practices rarely receive fact-based attention. Our speaker, Dr. David Cohen, will discuss what is known and less known about the uses and effects of coercion in our mental health system and consider what this means for ethical care, informed consent, and “doing no harm” today.
Dr. David Cohen is a Professor of Social Welfare and Associate Dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA.
This event is free to attend and offers continuing education credits (CEU/CHE) for those who request them on the RSVP form.
A reception with light refreshments will immediately follow the lecture. If you have any accommodation needs, please email: alumni@socwork.wisc.edu.
Debra Beebe Memorial Lecture
This biennial lecture is dedicated to the memory of Debra Beebe, a graduate student in the School of Social Work’s MSW program who was tragically killed while working in a group home for persons with mental illness in Madison. Ms. Beebe’s parents established a scholarship in their daughter’s name, which is given annually to students committed to working with persons with mental illness.