An essential component of an NHS PMVA course

Conflict Resolution, Hospital Security and Conflict, PMVA Training, Verbal Defense and Influence

An essential component of an NHS De Escalation course

NHS De Escalation courses: Compassion must be a core message for A great NHS De Escalation training course should have a balance of content which focusses on non-escalation topics, de-escalation topics, along with physical alternatives (breakaway and restrictive interventions skills) appropriate to the staff needs.  The importance of empathy, dignity and respect has to be a fundamental topic and

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Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5

Care Home Risks, Control and Restraint, Hospital Security and Conflict, mental health unit, Physical Interventions, Positive Handling, restraint positional asphyxia, Sudden death during restraint, Training Design

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

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Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4 2

Care Home Risks, learning disabilities, Physical Interventions, Positive Handling, restraint positional asphyxia, Sudden death during restraint, Training Design

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

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Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3

Control and Restraint, mental health unit, Physical Interventions, Positive Handling, Psychiatric, restraint positional asphyxia, Security and Door Supervisors, Sudden death during restraint, Training Design

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

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Conflict Management, Personal Safety, universal greeting, Verbal Defense and Influence

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

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