The mental health nursing profession has experienced various challenges since its
inception. This discursive review considers these challenges, including how mental health …

This article reviews current evidence on the use of coercive measures, including seclusion
and restraint, in psychiatric in-patient settings in Europe. There is a particular focus on …

Objective To examine whether the pandemic in 2020 caused changes in psychiatric hospital
cases, the percentage of patients exposed to coercive interventions, and aggressive …

Individuals with severe self-harm and experiences of lengthy psychiatric admissions often
have complex mental health conditions and are at risk of suicide. In this qualitative study …

Background Interventions to prevent the use of coercion in psychiatric hospitals have been
summarized in the 2018 German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and …

Abstract Background On 23 July 2018, the German Constitutional Court decided that
mechanical restraint in psychiatric patients lasting longer than 30 minutes requires a judge's …

Abstract Aims and Objectives We aimed to describe daily restraint practices and the factors
which influence their use, from an outsider's perspective. Background A reduction in restraint …

This article uses autoethnography to explore the author's lived experiences of mental
distress and how she has conceptualised and explained these symptoms to herself using …

Objective. To evaluate the usefulness of annual training in verbal de-escalation techniques
for reducing the use of mechanical restraints during nonvoluntary ambulance transfers of …

Coercion is common in mental health care settings in Germany. At the same time,
considerable efforts are undertaken to reduce and ultimately abolish coercive interventions …