“…Current trends across jurisdictions in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, include an emphasis on community-based practice (Aviram, 2002;Center for Health Workforce Studies, 2006;Newhill & Kore, 2004;Ryan et al, 2004;Vourlekis et al, 1998), the need for social workers to be more engaged with clients with serious mental illnesses (Newhill & Kore, 2004;Renouf & Bland, 2005), issues with inter-professional practice (Ray et al, 2008;Renouf & Bland, 2005;Steiner et al, 2008), the identification of approaches that empower clients and their families (Aviram, 2002;Carpenter, 2002;Proctor, 2004;Ray et al, 2008;Renouf & Bland, 2005), and ethical issues associated with increasing trends toward mandated treatment (Campbell et al, 2006;Taylor & Bentley, 2005;Wilson, 2007). Also consistent across jurisdictions is the trend toward implementing more coercive interventions such as mandatory outpatient treatment in the United States and Community Treatment Orders in the United Kingdom, Australia, and parts of Canada (Campbell et al, 2006;Taylor & Bentley, 2005;Wilson, 2007).…”