Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings

Part I: Background: Rationales and options for reform

1. Restrictive practices: options and opportunities
Bernadette McSherry and Yvette Maker

2. Ending restraint: an insider view
Cath Roper, Mary O'Hagan, Hamilton Kennedy and Helena Roennfeldt

Part II: Designing legislation and policy to support change

Introduction to Part II

3. Human rights and rapid tranquillisation
Peter Bartlett and Stephanie Sampson

4. The regulation of restrictive practices on people with intellectual impairment: the challenges and opportunities posed by a rights-based approach
Kim Chandler

5. Beyond restraint: gender-sensitive regulation of the control of women's behaviour in Australian mental health and disability services
Yvette Maker

6. Attempts to reduce the use of restrictive interventions in England between 2014 and 2019
Guy Cross

Part III: Implementing and monitoring reform

Introduction to Part III

7. Legal regulation and policy on the use of restraint and coercive measures in health care institutions in the Netherlands
Lisa Waddington

8. Queensland's new physical restraint framework: implementation and lessons since the commencement of the Mental Health Act 2016
John Allan and Amber Manwaring

9. Showing restraint: the uses and limitations of data in supporting restraint reduction
Grant Sara

10. The Court, the law and German psychiatry's slow progress towards human rights
Margret Osterfeld and Martin Zinkler

Part IV: Changing culture and practice

Introduction to Part IV

11. The intractable use of restraint, organisational culture and 'othering': lessons from the Oakden scandal
Bernadette McSherry

12. Being recovery-oriented and reducing the use of restrictive interventions in mental health care: the challenges in achieving transformation
Lisa Brophy, Justine Fletcher and Bridget Hamilton

13. Psychotropic use in Australian aged care homes: what can be done to ensure appropriate use?
Juanita Breen (previously Westbury)

14. Engaging doctors to reduce restraint: practice and pragmatics around restraint in clinical care
Nathan Gibson

Part V: Conclusions

15. Regulating restrictive practices: challenges and possibilities
Bernadette McSherry and Yvette Maker