I. Coercion: From the Hospital to the Community. - 1 Coercion to Inpatient Treatment: Initial Results and Implications for Assertive Treatment in the Community. - 2 Outpatient Commitment: Official Coercion in the Community. - II. Coercion and Treatment: The Community Provider's Perspective. - 3 Coercion and Tenacious Treatment in the Community: Applications to the Real World. - 4 Coercion and Leverage in Clinical Outreach. - 5 The Perils of Outreach Work: Overreaching the Limits of Persuasive Tactics. - III. The Social Context of Aggressive Community Treatment. - 6 Housing as a Tool of Coercion. - 7 Entitlements Payees and Coercion. - IV. Research Agenda on Coercion in the Community. - 8 Research on the Coercion of Persons with Severe Mental Illness. - 9 Coercion and Social Control: A Framework for Research on Aggressive Strategies in Community Mental Health. - V. Coercion in the Community: The Open Questions. - 10 When Push Comes to Shove: Aggressive Community Treatment and the Law. - 11 Regulation from Without: The Shadow Side of Coercion. Language: English