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Discuss the rationale of physical restraint
Define physical restraint and forensic mental health care
Discuss the historical views of restraint
Risk assessment of physical restraint
The perception of dangerousness
Management of physical restraint
Identify the social policy, legal, professionalism, ethical and cultural debates of physical restraints.
Rationales
used to prevent and manage unsettled, aggressive and violent behaviour in forensic settings (March and Caple 2011).
Evans et al. (2003) noted, clinicians considered physical restraint to be therapeutic.
HOWEVER, it is a high-risk process with serious consequences for patients and staff which can lead to death for example,
Death of David Rocky Bennett in 1998 and
Gareth Myatt in 2004.
Rationales cont..
In some cases physical restraint prevents se…(short extract)
