Physical interventions Blog Posts

• Systematic adoption of positive behavioural support across a service system was associated with reductions in physical interventions

  03 Sep 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Clozapine use in women with borderline personality disorder and mild learning disability reduced rates of self injury and use of restraint

  21 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield

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

  13 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Staff injuries as a result of physical interventions in forensic learning disabilities services analysed

  10 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Peer guided exercise helps to improve fitness and social integration in adolescents with learning disabilities

  10 Jul 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• People with learning disabilities experience physical interventions as painful and emotionally distressing

  19 Jun 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Aggressiveness did not predict use of restraint in Dutch institution for people with learning disabilities

  15 Jun 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Use of behaviour consultants reduced restrictive intervention in people learning disability and challenging behaviour

  24 May 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Restraint interventions widely used in children with learning disabilities despite absence of evidence based guidance

  17 May 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Choosing staff members reduced time in mechanical restraint in self injury case study

  03 May 2012

  • John Northfield