What is an Inpatient Treatment Order?
An Inpatient Treatment Order is a legal way of providing treatment to a person with a mental illness when they are unable to agree to treatment and may not be safe.
An Inpatient Treatment Order can only be made when there are no less restrictive ways of ensuring that a person gets appropriate treatment.
What does it mean if I am on an Inpatient Treatment Order?
If you are on an Inpatient Treatment Order, you will be required to stay in a treatment centre and receive treatment for your mental illness.
You will have access to a comprehensive range of treatments, which are based on the best available evidence about what is most effective for your mental illness.
Treatment may include talk therapy, medication and other interventions.
Treatment will be provided by trained health professionals including doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and psychologists
These professionals will help you to get better. You can discuss your treatment at any time with the staff who are assisting you.
Statement of Rights brochure
You have rights as a patient under a mental health detention and treatment order and you can read about these in the downloadable brochure, which is available in English (PDF 523KB) along with fifteen other community languages.
- عربي - Arabic (PDF 377KB)
- 简体中文 - Chinese simplified (PDF 221KB)
- Hrvatski - Croatian (PDF 142KB)
- Deutsch - German (PDF 155KB)
- Ελληνικά - Greek (PDF 163KB)
- हिंदी - Hindi (PDF 416KB)
- Italiano - Italian (PDF 156KB)
- فارسی - Persian (PDF 219KB)
- Polski - Polish (PDF 286KB)
- Русский - Russian (PDF 201KB)
- Српски - Serbian (PDF 219KB)
- Sinhalese (PDF 143KB)
- Español - Spanish (PDF 157KB)
- kiswahili - Swahili (PDF 130KB)
- Tiếng Việt - Vietnamese (PDF 173KB)