The Use of Coercive Measures in Forensic Psychiatric Care Legal, Ethical and Practical Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Völlm, Birgit (Editor), Nedopil, Norbert (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Psychiatry.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.