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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries.
Scholten, M.
Efkemann, S.A.
Faissner, M.
Finke, M.
Gather, J.
Gergel, T.
Gieselmann, A.
Ham, L.
Juckel, G.
Melle, L.
Owen, G.
Potthoff, S.
Stephenson, L.A.
Szmukler, G.
Vellinga, A.
Vollmann, J.
Voskes, Y.
Werning, A.
Widdershoven, G.
2023. Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries. European Psychiatry 66(1): e48, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.2421
Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include a clause in which mental health service users consent in advance to involuntary hospital admission and treatment under specified conditions. Medical ethicists and legal scholars identified various potential benefits of SBDs but have also raised ethical concerns. Until recently, little was known about the views of stakeholders on the opportunities and challenges of SBDs.