Background: Mental health services can be coercive and this means a risk of harm. Patient violence can cause harm and some interventions can be harmful (e.g. seclusion, restraint). Restorative justice (RJ) provides a framework for addressing such harm.Aim: To identify how RJ is being used...
Several years ago, a new care model was developed in Dutch forensic psychiatry called Forensic High and Intensive Care (FHIC). FHIC aims to foster the transition from control-based care, including the seclusion of patients, to contact-based care in forensic psychiatry. The core elements of the...
Research on coercion in mental healthcare has recently shifted to the investigation of subjective aspects, both on the side of the people with mental disorders affected and the staff members involved. In this context, the role of personality traits and attitudes of staff members in...
In Germany, the police plays an important role when it comes to involuntary admissions of people with severe mental disorders to psychiatric hospitals. Still, police officers do not seem to be sufficiently trained for dealing with such situations. The current research project aimed to examine...
There is little consensus regarding the content or teaching methodology, of training for frontline personnel in the management of aggression within mental health. The fidelity of translation of classroom teaching to practice is uncertain, as is the effectiveness of the training in improving safety of...
This paper presentation draws on data from the presenter’s PhD project: “Coercion in psychiatry: a negotiative practice of autonomy?”. The methodology is qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, comprising of participant observation and interviews. The findings suggest that there are conflicts in the meaning making of interpersonal relationships...
This study explored with qualitative methodology the experience of mechanical restraint from the patients’ perspective and their suggestions for improvement. In 2020 in Vienna twelve guided individual interviews were conducted with inpatients.Three prototypes were identified, which are characterised by physical and psychological stress as well...
In 2020, the first national mandatory standards for training in restrictive practices were launched in England. The Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards apply to any organisation delivering training on restrictive practices (including restraint) in mental health and learning disability settings. This presentation will outline...
There is significant variation in the levels of compulsory psychiatric admission between countries and also between different geographical areas within countries. This suggests that some areas use more compulsory care than is necessary. By exploring the international literature and reporting on the RECON register study...
Research: The work of the research group was based on a comprehensive analysis of offender patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) regarding different difficult treatment courses via machine learning (ML). Based on these findings, a prognostic tool for their occurrence is currently under development.Methodology:...