Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
The technique being demonstrated in the picture accompanying this post is promoted as a way for controlling violent patients in a hospital setting. Unfortunately, it is potentially a deadly restraint and its use might go far beyond control and extend to culpable homicide or corporate manslaughter! Restraint training has moved on a lot in many […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
The accompanying images in this post are of something that has been referred to as a ‘Therapeutic Floor Hold’ in some training materials. It consistutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person who is being restrained is first taken to the floor – often through the use of some kind of unbalancing […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
There are better and less-better Restraint Techniques The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques they were learning at the […]
Conflict Management in Edinburgh -based Community Charity
We have been providing Conflict Management in Edinburgh for a national provider of homelessness outreach and support services to help their staff to manage the sometimes difficult, distressed or dangerous behaviour they encounter when working with their service users. The video below describes some of the conflict management strategies that we worked on with the […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #1
This image was first published in an article about the types of physical restraint practices being carried out on children in schools in the USA. There are a large number of things in this ‘procedure’ which are likely to fail during a “floor restraint” intervention and for that reason it is worth drawing out the […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care Gerard O’Dea our Director of Training was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services, sometimes known as Safe […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
Lone Worker Abducted – is your training sufficient? Lone Worker Training may have helped a vulnerable social worker who was abducted and attacked by youths. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and hit […]
Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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VIDEO: Positive Handling in Schools
Positive Handling Schools Learn Effective Restraint with Children Positive Handling Schools come to us when they are dealing with challenging behaviours to use our experience to help them to effectively and appropriately manage disruptive, risky or extreme situations using appropriate Positive Handling strategies. Our Positive Handling training reduces injury risk, improves inspection compliance and safeguards staff, children […]
Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
Floor Based Restraint Controversy In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that […]