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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Restraint and the question of validity
Author(s): Paterson, Brodie
Duxbury, Joy
Contact Email: b.a.paterson@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Inpatient
Mental
Psychiatric
Restraint
Validity
Violence
aggression
article
attitude to health
counter transference
decision making
ethics
evidence based medicine
exercise
health personnel attitude
human
legal aspect
mental disease
nurse attitude
nursing evaluation research
occupational health
organization and management
patient advocacy
persuasive communication
philosophy
politics
psychiatric nursing
psychological aspect
safety
standard
United Kingdom
United States
Attitude of Health Personnel
Coercion
Countertransference (Psychology)
Evidence-Based Medicine
Great Britain
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Judgment
Mental Disorders
Nurse's Role
Philosophy, Nursing
Postmodernism
Restraint, Physical
Safety Management
Nursing ethics
Issue Date: Jul-2007
Date Deposited: 20-May-2013
Citation: Paterson B & Duxbury J (2007) Restraint and the question of validity. Nursing Ethics, 14 (4), pp. 535-545. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733007077888
Abstract: Restraint as an intervention in the management of acute mental distress has a long history that predates the existence of psychiatry. However, it remains a source of controversy with an ongoing debate as to its role. This article critically explores what to date has seemingly been only implicit in the debate surrounding the role of restraint: how should the concept of validity be interpreted when applied to restraint as an intervention? The practice of restraint in mental health is critically examined using two post-positivist constructions of validity, the pragmatic and the psychopolitical, by means of a critical examination of the literature. The current literature provides only weak support for the pragmatic validity of restraint as an intervention and no support to date for its psychopolitical validity. Judgements regarding the validity of any intervention that is coercive must include reference to the psychopolitical dimensions of both practice and policy.
DOI Link: 10.1177/0969733007077888
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