Adjective : a voluntary contribution. ,voluntary cooperation. ,voluntary hospitals. ,voluntary manslaughter. ,a voluntary settlement. ,a voluntary agent. ,voluntary laughter.    From Dictionary.com. 

This brother was being considered for long-term nonvoluntary placement in an adolescent residential treatment facility that the parents were hoping would accept him when their insurance coverage ran out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Little recognition is given to parental ambivalence about nonvoluntary placement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

The result is that, because of the new legal issues raised, many fine programs reject any nonvoluntary adolescent patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

This is obviously not the case, however, when the teenager is a nonvoluntary client, e.g. referred by the juvenile court, school, or some such agency of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

In the Netherlands, he pointed out, where euthanasia is sanctioned, studies have shown that approximately 1,000 deaths a year represent "nonvoluntary euthanasia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Right to Die?] Reference

There are also concerns about a “slippery slope” leading from assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia, and from voluntary euthanasia to nonvoluntary euthanasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damien Keown - Would You Help Your Parents End Their Lives?] Reference

First, the update found that beyond the roughly 3,600 cases of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia reported in a given year, there are about 1,000 instances of nonvoluntary euthanasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Right to Die?] Reference

When gangs stake out their territory, a neighborhood is composed of members as well as prisoners, forcing cooperation, tacit submission, compliance, and at times, even nonvoluntary enlistment, of other youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

The Netherlands studies fail to demonstrate that permitting physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia will not lead to the nonvoluntary euthanasia of children, the demented, the mentally ill, the old, and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Right to Die?] Reference

In today's version of this argument, some high-profile and professional women have replanted the proverbial feminist flag in the reclamation of women's once-nonvoluntary subordinate status: opting to stay home with their kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip N. Cohen: Madonna Turns 50: Wither Feminism?] Reference

The nonvoluntary patient, increasingly, receives short-term hospitalization and community treatment mandated by legislative reforms and administrative mental health policy, despite the frequent medical need for more protective custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

The ethical arguments for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, advocates of euthanasia have maintained, do not apply to euthanasia only when it is voluntary; they can also be used to justify some kinds of nonvoluntary euthanasia of the incompetent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Right to Die?] Reference

They cannot be awarded such decision-making powers; many in fact are seen as nonvoluntary clients, forcibly referred for treatment by parents, schools, and courts; and while they overtly protest that they need no help, in fact, unconsciously they desire limit-setting and the caring stance of a therapist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

SECRETARY HERMAN: And I think to the extent that we have to look at nonvoluntary action, if you will, in this area, it will be related to the need for consistency for all consumers in this area, because clearly you already have some very good HMOs that are doing disclosure, that are providing the kind of information that we're asking for through this Bill of Rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Consumer Bill Of Rights] Reference

When the referral is nonvoluntary, the clinician is well advised to inform the adolescent about expectations and reality and take a therapeutic stance that will not permit collusion; e.g., if the teenager misses appointments this reality will not be kept in confidence and withheld from parents, school, the juvenile court, probation department or other relevant authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

APPROVED: Adding a nonvoluntary dental plan to the city employee health plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

Which fatigues you more, to give attention of the nonvoluntary type, or the voluntary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

In nonvoluntary attention the environment largely determines what we shall attend to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

A very close relationship and interdependence exists between nonvoluntary and voluntary attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

Interest (s) and nonvoluntary attention, 23 order of development of, 267 selection among, 262 transitoriness of certain, 260.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

But the district also is considering a nonvoluntary program that would split students in the Accelerated Progress Program between Garfield and Ingraham, starting with next fall's freshmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The things we see and hear and touch and taste and smell, the things we like, the things we do and hope to do -- these are the determining factors in our mental life so long as we are giving nonvoluntary attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

This is nonvoluntary attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

Types of attention: The three types of attention -- Interest and nonvoluntary attention -- The will and voluntary attention -- Not really different kinds of attention -- Making different kinds of attention reënforce each other -- The habit of attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference