Ethical challenges of seclusion in psychiatric inpatient wards: a qualitative study of the experiences of Norwegian mental health professionals

Ethical challenges of seclusion in psychiatric inpatient wards: a qualitative study of the experiences of Norwegian mental health professionals

Abstract Background Seclusion is an invasive clinical intervention used in inpatient psychiatric wards as a continuation of milieu therapy with vast behavioural implications that raise many ethical challenges. Seclusion is in Norway defined as an intervention used to contain the patient, accompanied...

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Main Authors: Espen W. Haugom, Torleif Ruud, Torfinn Hynnekleiv
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Seclusion
Coercion
Ethics
Health professionals/mental health staff
Mental health services
Open-area seclusion
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-4727-4

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