Mr Anna Love1 1Victorian Department Of Health And Human Services, Melbourne, Australia The Victorian Office of the Chief Psychiatrist plays a vital role in reducing restrictive interventions within Victorian mental health services.  A report commissioned in 2018 highlighted the Victoria’s...

Prof Brian Mckenna1 1Auckalnd University Of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand There are marked variations in the use of restrictive practices across jurisdictions. In some countries, certain practices are not used at all, while specific practices are more pronounced in some...

Mr Russell James3 1Tasmanian Health Service, Hobart, Australia, 2University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 3RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia The use of restrictive practices within the mental health setting continues to attract significant attention, in particular to lived experience of service users...

Mr Randolfo Obregon1, Ms Phillipa Thomas2 1Victorian Department Of Health And Human Services, Melbourne, Australia, 2Alfred Psychiatry, Melbourne, Australia The use of restrictive interventions as a risk and consequence management strategy in mental health inpatient units is often driven by...

Ms Kate Thwaites1 1Office Of The Chief Mental Health Nurse, Melbourne, Australia Reflecting and developing our professional roles -looking after consumers, carers and our workforce – we needed a strategy to nurture the nursing workforce. In Victoria we developed a...

Mrs Elyse Riverson1, Ms Emer Keaveney1 1Northwestern Mental Health – Melbourne Health, Parkville , Australia Psychiatric inpatient units are often staffed by novice nurses, who are expected to care for high risk presentations with minimal role modelling or experience. The...

Associate Professor  Jonathan Knott1,2, Associate Professor  Marie   Gerdtz1,2, Mrs Sheriden Dobson1,2, Dr Catherine Daniel1,2, Professor  Andis Gaundis3, Professor Biswadev Mitra4, Associate Professor Bruce Bartley5, Dr Pauline Chapman6 1The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 3Dandenong Hospital,...

Ms Julie Anderson1 1Office Of The Chief Psychiatrist Victoria, Melbourne, Australia One of the four statutory roles of Victoria’s Office of the Chief Psychiatrist is: ‘to promote the rights of persons receiving mental health services’ (s120, MH Act, Vic, 2014)...

Ms Lisa Wright1,2, Associate Professor  Sally Bennett1, Professor Pamela Meredith1,3 1School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia, 2The Prince Charles Hospital, Metro North Mental Health Service, Brisbane, Australia, 3School of Health, Medical and Applied...

Ms Tessa Maguire1,2, Ms  Jo  Ryan1,2, Professor Brian McKenna2,3 1Forensicare, Melbourne, Australia, 2Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science/Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 3Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Restrictive practices are not therapeutic and application can lead to adverse...