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.
