Community Treatment Orders for People with Serious Mental Illness: A New Zealand Study

Anita Gibbs trained as a social worker at Bristol University before working as a probation officer in Avon during the 1990s. She undertook a PhD at Bristol before taking up academic positions in Oxford, the Open University and, since 1999, Otago, New Zealand. She has published extensively on social work topics and current interests are mental health, supervised contact services and the needs of Pacific Island people. John Dawson is Professor of Law at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied law at Otago and Harvard and has published widely in law and psychiatry journals. He recently edited a book on the law on biomedical research. In 2003, he spent 5 months travelling in Australia, Canada, the UK and Switzerland studying involuntary outpatient care. Richard Mullen initially trained in Medicine in Leeds, England, and subsequently in Psychiatry in London and Dunedin, New Zealand. For the past 10 years he has been a consultant in general adult psychiatry, and for the past 4 years, a senior lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at the University of Otago.