Background: Children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders frequently experience
hospital treatment as coercive. In particular, for patients with severe anorexia nervosa (AN) …

Introduction Restraints, a highly regulated and contentious measure in pediatric psychiatry,
have significant negative impacts on children. The application of international human rights …

Background A small but significant group of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) undergo
multiple involuntary treatment (IT) events. To enhance our understanding of IT and …

Background A subgroup of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) undergoing involuntary
treatment (IT) seems to account for most of the IT events. Little is known about these patients …

Involuntary treatment of anorexia nervosa is an option in cases in which the patient's life or
other people's lives are at risk or, in some countries, to prevent the deterioration of the …

Restrictive practices are often used harmfully with children in institutional settings.
Interventions to reduce their use do not appear to have been mapped systematically. Using …

In adolescents admitted to mental health inpatient units, restrictive interventions are
associated with a risk of physical and psychological harm. Mental health policy and legal …

Ethics is an integral, essential part of good clinical practice, and the ethics of treatment of
eating disorders is particularly difficult for many clinicians. In this chapter, we draw on the …

The main aim of this doctoral dissertation was to investigate how patients, parents and
siblings experienced family-based inpatient treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa …

Background: Manual restraint is a 'hands on'type of physical restraint used by staff in
inpatient mental health care and beyond to maintain patient and staff safety. However, its …