'Only ever as a last resort': Mental health nurses' experiences of restrictive practices

T Power, A Baker, D Jackson - International Journal of Mental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Restrictive practices as the last resort … a range of interventions to avoid restrictive practices.
However, despite this, … indicated restrictive practices being used as a strategy of last resort. …

As the last resort: reducing the use of restrictive physical interventions using organisational approaches

R Deveau, A McDonnell - British Journal of Learning …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… , ‘least restrictive’ and used as the last resort following preventive strategies. The last resort
… This paper proposes that adopting explicit policies and practice to reduce restrictive PI is …

[PDF][PDF] As the last resort: Reducing the use of restrictive interventions

R Deveau, P McGill - Canterbury: Tizard Centre, 2007 - researchgate.net
… the practices through which restrictive physical interventions can be reduced and the principle
of last resort use … regulated practices to reduce restrictive physical (and other restrictive) …

Entry into restrictive care settings: Placements of last resort?

S James, J Landsverk, LK Leslie… - Families in …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
… cant portion of foster youth, RCSs are not placements of last resort. Though the study found
presence of behavior problems and older age to be primary predictors of entry into an RCS, …

Seclusion: A last resort measure

S Myers - Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… and legal responsibility is to use the least restrictive means possible to deal with potentially
destructive behavior. Indeed, seclusion should always be used as a last resort measure. …

A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of 'last resort'in the use of restraint

S Riahi, G Thomson, J Duxbury - International journal of mental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… restraint use continues and what ‘last resort’ means in relation to this practice. ‘Last resort
is a key term that has surfaced in approximately the last two decades in relation to restraint use…

On last resorts

RM Emerson - American Journal of Sociology, 1981 - journals.uchicago.edu
In a variety of social control settings, the use of extreme sanctions is held to be appropriate
only as a last resort. This paper examines the nature, occasions, and accomplishment of such …

Fear and blame in mental health nurses' accounts of restrictive practices: Implications for the elimination of seclusion and restraint

E Muir‐Cochrane, D O'Kane… - International journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… violent and/or aggressive, within a context where they are used as a last resort: I believe
it's necessary, but as a last resort, in certain situations, for the safety of staff that have to work …

'A Sentence of Last Resort': the order for lifelong restriction and the sentencing of dangerous offenders in Scotland

EA Ferguson - 2021 - theses.gla.ac.uk
… This thesis presents a critical analysis of the order for lifelong restriction (OLR), which is a
‘… It is ‘a sentence of last resort’6 imposed when all other disposals are considered to be …

Seclusion and Restraint as a Last Resort Method: a Brief Report and Student Commentary

NA Parsons - The Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 2021 - journals.charlotte.edu
… is not ideal, restrictive safety measures may in some cases be necessary as a last resort. …
Therefore, these techniques should only be used as a last resort effort to prevent imminent …