Introduction: Coercion is frequent in clinical practice, particularly in psychiatry. Since it
overrides some fundamental rights of patients (notably their liberty of movement and …

The use of coercion in psychiatric and mental health nursing is a major challenge, which can
lead to negative consequences for nurses and patients, including rupture in the therapeutic …

Background In mental health services what is commonplace across international frontiers is
that to prevent aggressive patients from harming themselves, other patients or staff, coercive …

Struggling to understand ethics? Feeling lost when trying to handle moral dilemmas in
professional practice? Worried about helping patients to make decisions in an ethical way …

The purpose of the current literature review was to critically review studies related to the use
of restraint and seclusion in psychiatric settings across cultures, identify ethical principles …

BackgroundHow people integrate the experience of involuntary hospital admission and
treatment into their life narrative has not been explored systematically. AimsTo establish a …

Twelve psychiatric inpatients were qualitatively interviewed after physical restraint. Of these,
seven had also been pharmacologically restrained. Patients gave refusal of medication …

Background: Sedation, seclusion or restraint are recognized methods of containing a person
experiencing an acute psychotic episode with behavioural disturbance which has not …

The use of coercion in mental health care is not self‐evident and requires moral justification.
A joint understanding is difficult to achieve, because patients and health professionals often …

Background There is a lack of evidence to underpin decisions on what constitutes the most
effective and least restrictive form of coercive intervention when responding to violent …