Overview
- Offers effective interventions for safely reducing and eliminating restraints in mental health treatment
- Describes historical and contemporary uses of restraints
- Examines a range of problems associated with restraint and restrictive behavior management practices
- Provides examples of effective restraint-free interventions for dealing with such issues as aggression, chronic self-injury, pica, medical and dental procedures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Abuse and restraint-free mental health care
- Autism and restraint-free mental health care
- Control and restraint in mental health services
- Emergency medications in mental health services
- Injury and restraint-free mental health care
- Intellectual disability and mental health services
- Neglect and mental health services
- PRN medication and mental health services
- Restraint use in mental health services
- Restraint-free mental health care for seniors
- Seclusion and mental health services
- Time out in mental health care
About this book
This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and make the case for behavior management interventions that are less restrictive without compromising the safety of the patients, staff, or others. This volume presents the necessary steps toward the gradual elimination of restraint-based strategies and advocates for practices based in client rights and ethical values.
Topics featured in this volume include:
- The epidemiology of restraints in mental health practice.
- Ethical and legal aspects of restraint and seclusion.
- Current uses of restraint and seclusion.
- Applied behavior analysis with general characteristics and interventions.
- The evidence for organizational interventions.
- Other approaches to non-restrictive behavior management.
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of developmental psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, psychiatry, and geriatrics.
Reviews
“This comprehensive book has almost everything you would ever want to know on the subject. … Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices especially useful for both managers and clinicians working in psychiatric settings. In mental health and geriatric residential facilities, schools, juvenile detention centers, and similar more restrictive settings, the book would be informative as an in-service training resource for interns, nurses, teachers, direct care staff, and behavioral consultants.” (Ian M. Evans, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (1), January, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Peter Sturmey Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York and a member of the Doctoral program in Behavior Analysis. He has published widely on intellectual and other developmental disabilities and made many national and international presentations for more than 30 years. His main focus of research is training staff and parents and evidence-based practice and intellectual disabilities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
Authors: Peter Sturmey
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17569-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17568-3Published: 10 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35920-5Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17569-0Published: 01 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 249
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Therapy, Social Work