Journal article
Toward coercion free, trauma-informed care in Australian adult mental health services: strategies for social workers
Social Work in Mental Health, Vol.18(5), pp.536-553
2020
Abstract
Least restrictive practice is a key principle of mental health legislation. It seeks to minimize coercion and maximize the human rights of mental health service users. Coercive practice, with a focus on seclusion, is explored from a whole-of-mental-health-system perspective as distinct from the behavior of individual service users. Exemplar coercion-reducing strategies arising from the reviewed research and literature are outlined. The exemplars can strengthen the utility of the least restrictive principle by extending non-coercive practice options for mental health social workers. The strategies bring a focus to proactive trauma-informed systemic changes and community level alternatives to hospitalization, coercion and seclusion.
Details
- Title
- Toward coercion free, trauma-informed care in Australian adult mental health services: strategies for social workers
- Authors
- Dyann Ross (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publication details
- Social Work in Mental Health, Vol.18(5), pp.536-553
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/15332985.2020.1801552
- ISSN
- 1533-2993
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99479307402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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