Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
About this ebook
Topics featured in this volume include:
- The epidemiology of restraints in mental health practice.
- Ethical and legal aspects of restraint and seclusion.
- Current uses of restraint and seclusion.
- Applied behavior analysis with general characteristics and interventions.
- The evidence for organizational interventions.
- Other approaches to non-restrictive behavior management.
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of developmental psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, psychiatry, and geriatrics.
About the author
Peter Sturmey Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York and a member of the Doctoral program in Behavior Analysis. He has published widely on intellectual and other developmental disabilities and made many national and international presentations for more than 30 years. His main focus of research is training staff and parents and evidence-based practice and intellectual disabilities.
