Violence in Psychiatric Institutions
This page is under construction
Intention
The intention of this page is to review measures of violence in psychiatic institutions particularly those using Nonviolent Communication.
Methodology
Published and unpublished data was collected from a variety of sources (see tables). The data collected consisted of no of seclusion incidents, no of hours patients were secluded, no of restraint incidents, no of hours patients were restrained and no of staff injuries over a period of time. The data was then "normalized" by expressing the data per 1000 patient days. When the number of patient days during the obseration period was not avaiillible, the unit capacity times length of data collection poeriod was used as an estimate of patient days.
In some cases only combined secusion plus restraint data was availible so this was compared with ther calculated seclusion plus restraint data for other institutions.
Results
Interpretation
References
Riemer,D. Corwith, C. Application of Core Strategies: Reducing Seclusion & Restraint Use, On The Edge, 13(3) (2007)
Riemer, D. Creating Sanctuary: Reducing Violence in a Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Unit, On The Edge - Spring 2009
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