Mental health inpatient units are complex and challenging environments for care and
treatment. Two imperatives in these settings are to minimize restrictive practices such as …

Restrictive practices are often harmful and many academics, policy-makers and clinicians
agree that their use should be reduced in care settings. Specific focus on secure mental …

Introduction Aggression and violence are highly complex problems in acute psychiatry that
often lead to the coercive interventions. The Safewards Model is an evidence-informed …

Aim Investigate patient perspectives on barriers and enablers to the use and effectiveness of
de‐escalation techniques for aggression in mental health settings. Background De …

Objectives: The study aimed to provide a map** review of non-pharmacological
interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings; classify …

Safewards is intended to be an evidence-based approach to reduce levels of conflict and
containment in mental health inpatient settings. A systematic review was carried out to …

Abstract Background The Safewards model is gaining increasing acceptance in the mental
health field in Australia and overseas. One of the most important goals of inpatient …

BackgroundIncidents of self-harm are common on psychiatric wards. There are a wide
variety of therapeutic, social and environmental interventions that have shown some …

Safewards is an internationally adopted framework that provides interventions to reduce
conflict and containment in healthcare settings. This systematic review evaluated the effect …

Background Safewards is an evidence-based practice improvement model to minimise
conflict in inpatient mental health units. There is limited published research on implementing …