Should we widen our restraint choices?
Restraint is used in around 5% of psychiatric inpatients in the UK. Patients experience different types of restraints in widely different ways. This article argues that the UK restricts its services and psychiatric patients from making preferred choices about the types of restraint used by restricting the available restraint to seclusion and physical restraint.
Authors
- Peter Lepping (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3251-5370)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr20252504
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00