Restraint Blog Posts

• Inequity in action: why minoritised ethnic patients are more often rapidly tranquilised and what needs to change

  11 Jul 2025

  • Oladayo Bifarin
  • Megan McGee
  • Walter Ugwuocha
  • and Simon Bradstreet

  
• When care causes harm: a systematic review of adverse experiences in mental health wards

  16 Jan 2025

  • Jessica Griffiths
  • and Una Foye

  
• Trauma informed care on acute inpatient units: reducing self harm and restrictive practices

  20 Sep 2023

  • Kirsten Lawson

  
• Care or punishment? Black service users’ experiences of inpatient mental health care under detention

  14 Jun 2023

  • Ian Cummins

  
• Psychological techniques for children with autism spectrum disorder

  20 Jun 2022

  • Carly Ross

  
• REsTRAIN YOURSELF: reducing restrictive practices on mental health wards #BCTcompare

  04 Jun 2019

  • Krysia Canvin

  
• Coercion and power in psychiatry #MHQT

  24 Apr 2019

  • Ian Cummins

  
• #SafeStaffing Mental health nursing on inpatient wards

  22 Jan 2016

  • John Baker

  
• Dutch policy makers look to international experience to help reduce the use of restraints in people with learning disabilities

  13 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield