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Therapeutic interventions associated with seclusion of acutely disturbed individuals
Author(s) -
MUIRCOCHRANE E.,
HARRISON B.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.1996.tb00132.x
Subject(s) - seclusion , psychological intervention , mentally ill , nursing , medicine , grounded theory , nursing interventions classification , nursing staff , psychiatry , psychology , qualitative research , mental health , mental illness , social science , sociology
The use of seclusion ‐ i.e. placing an individual in a specially designed room with a locked option in the management of mentally ill individuals whose behaviour is acutely disturbed, and who pose a personal and/or environmental threat. In a grounded theory study of psychiatric nurses' use of seclusion in two closed wards in a metropolitan teaching hospital in Australia, intervening and mainstreaming are the categories that describe nursing interventions developed from constant comparison of the data collected. Details of these interventions are presented, with reference to the skills that participants describe as necessary in the care of a mentally ill patient being secluded and then being re‐integrated into ward life. Considerations for further study on the topic of seclusion are presented.