Community Treatment Orders: The Lived Experience of Consumers and Carers in NSW

Report based on the study commissioned by the Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Office (MHDAO) of NSW Health to provide a qualitative analysis of the lived experience of consumers subject to CTOs and carers of people subject to CTOs in NSW. This study was linked to another inquiry conducted on behalf of MHDAO by the same research group examining how the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘capacity’ could be constructed in the context of decisions around the use of CTOs. (The results of the ‘risk and capacity’ arm of the study are reported elsewhere.