Inpatient mental healthcare settings should offer safe environments for patients to heal and
recover and for staff to provide high‐quality treatment and care. However, aggressive patient …

Aggression, conflict and restrictive practices present complexities in acute mental health
services, as do implementing service changes to reduce them. Existing published literature …

Background Safewards is an evidence-based practice improvement model to minimise
conflict in inpatient mental health units. There is limited published research on implementing …

Agressionsmanagement ist ein zentrales Thema für die psychiatrische Pflege. Safewards
zeigt, was Konflikte auslöst, und bietet praxiserprobte Interventionen an, um Aggressionen …

While forensic mental health has seen considerable growth over the last two decades, little
is known about the experience of registered nurses working in these environments. This …

Introduction Nursing staff are frequently exposed to high‐risk patient behaviours within
inpatient health services, yet staff commonly report a lack of training and support in …

Research into the spatial dimensions of deprivation of liberty and psychiatric hospitalization
has a long and complex tradition. In this context, the increasing numbers of prisoners and …

Managing consumers with challenging behaviours by way of secluding them has been
practiced for centuries. Many countries have attempted to eliminate seclusion but with very …

Safewards is a multi‐intervention mental health nursing model of practice improvement
aimed at preventing and reducing conflict and containment. The use of Safewards has now …

Eine Psychiatrie ohne Zwang ist möglich–und notwendig Dirk Richter ist sicher: Die
Zwangsmaßnahmen der Psychiatrie sind mit den Menschenrechten nicht zu vereinbaren …