Mental Disorders & Forced Treamtent Issues
#1 How do you feel about someone who has been hospitalized
for a mental disorder? Would you date someone if you knew they had been
hospitalized? What if they had been in the hospital for a strictly physical
illness? Is there a difference in your feelings? Why? Does this affect your
willingness to seek therapy for your own problems, or for those of your friends
and family? Why is our society so frightened by psychological disorders?
#2 What are the ethics of forced mandatory treatment for
psychological disorders? What are the patient’s rights to refuse treatment?
When is it society’s right to control an individual and force treatment or
involuntary commitment? If a person is threatening suicide, should he or she be
forced into treatment? Would it be right for a therapist to allow a person to
make suicide a matter of personal choice, an expression of “free
will?”





