Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices

✍ Scribed by Peter Sturmey (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and make the case for behavior management interventions that are less restrictive without compromising the safety of the patients, staff, or others. This volume presents the necessary steps toward the gradual elimination of restraint-based strategies and advocates for practices based in client rights and ethical values.

Topics featured in this volume include:

• The epidemiology of restraints in mental health practice.
• Ethical and legal aspects of restraint and seclusion.
• Current uses of restraint and seclusion.
• Applied behavior analysis with general characteristics and interventions.
• The evidence for organizational interventions.
• Other approaches to non-restrictive behavior management.

Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of developmental psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, psychiatry, and geriatrics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Definitions and Rationales....Pages 3-30
Epidemiology....Pages 31-45
Ethics and Legal Aspects....Pages 47-66
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century History....Pages 67-77
Recent History....Pages 79-92
Failing to Learn from John Connolly: Current Use of Restraint and Seclusion....Pages 93-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Applied Behavior Analysis: General Characteristics....Pages 121-139
Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions....Pages 141-163
Other Approaches....Pages 165-184
Organizational Approaches: General Principles....Pages 185-196
Organizational Interventions: The Evidence....Pages 197-219
The Way Forward....Pages 221-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-249

✦ Subjects

Developmental Psychology;Behavioral Therapy;Social Work