title: Residence Conditions on Community Treatment Orders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the clinical reasons and legal authority for including a residential placement condition in a community treatment order (CTO).
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe the clinical reasons for imposing a residence condition and discuss how this is authorized by the laws of the Canadian provinces (using Ontario as the main example).
  
  
  RESULTS
  A residence condition can facilitate numerous benefits, including: regular access to a person by a clinical team; continuing therapeutic relations; supervision of medication; provision of general medical care; and reduction in substance use, risks of victimization, and other unintended harm. A resident condition can be lawfully imposed when it clearly fits the purposes of the CTO legislation and stops short of authorizing detention in a community facility.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In certain circumstances, a residence condition is clinically justified and a lawful aspect of a CTO.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrist and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006798:Housing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009864:Ontario; D012111:Residence Characteristics