The use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care [electronic resource] : legal, ethical and practical challenges / Birgit Völlm, Norbert Nedopil, editors.
Völlm, Birgit, editor.; Nedopil, Norbert, editor.
2016
RC480.5
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Title
The use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care [electronic resource] : legal, ethical and practical challenges / Birgit Völlm, Norbert Nedopil, editors.
ISBN
9783319267487 (electronic book)
3319267485 (electronic book)
9783319267463
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26748-7
Published
Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : color illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-26748-7 doi
Call Number
RC480.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.89/1
Summary
This book presents the legal context and describes the ethical and practical challenges when using coercive measures in forensic psychiatric settings. A wide range of aspects relevant to the use of such measures, including environmental, patient-related, and staff-related factors, are explored, and the experience of coercive interventions is described from the staff and the patient perspective. Differences in jurisdictions and examples of good practice are highlighted. The authors are from a range of professional backgrounds, ensuring breadth as well as depth in discussion of the topic. The use of coercive measures, in particular restraint, seclusion, and involuntary medication, for the control of aggression in psychiatry remains controversial. Forensic mental health care deals with individuals who pose a risk to others and often present with significant management problems within institutions. The care of patients in these settings gives rise to debates about the balance between care and safety, and between the interests of the patients and those of the wider society to be protected. Despite these tensions, limited research has been conducted specifically on the use of coercive measures in forensic mental health care. This volume aims to fill the gap and will be of value to all professionals working in forensic psychiatric settings as well as to those working in general psychiatric and custodial settings, law professionals, and patients.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 11, 2016).
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Völlm, Birgit, editor.
Nedopil, Norbert, editor.
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Use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care : legal, ethical and practical challenges.
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Introduction
Part I The Context
International human rights and institutional forensic psychiatry: The core issues
Legal aspects of the use of coercive measures in psychiatry
Sociological perspectives of coercion in psychiatry
Wise restraints: Ethical issues in the coercion of forensic patients
An international perspective on the use of coercive measures
Part II Coercion in different settings
The use of coercive measures in general psychiatric settings
Special considerations in forensic psychiatry
The uses of coercive measures in forensic psychiatry
a literature review
Coercion in forensic healthcare: A North-American perspective
The use of coercion in prison settings
Part III The experience of coercion
Staff attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in forensic settings
Staff experiences of using coercive measures: "You can't tell people who don't understand"
Patient experience of coercive measures
Service user
Coercion concern
Part IV Practical challenges
Best practices for reducing the use of coercive measures
Mechanical restraint: Legal, ethical and clinical issues.

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