Special Section on Seclusion and Restraint: Consumers' Perceptions of Negative Experiences and 'Sanctuary Harm' in Psychiatric Settings
| Autor: | Samantha Suffoletta-Maierle, Cynthia S. Robins, Julie A. Sauvageot, Karen Cusack, B. Christopher Frueh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Psychiatric Services. 56:1134-1138 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9700 1075-2730 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/appi.ps.56.9.1134 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: Recent studies show a high prevalence of trauma symptoms among people with serious mental illness who are treated in public-sector mental health systems. Unfortunately, growing evidence suggests that many consumers have had traumatic or harmful experiences while being treated in various psychiatric settings. This study explores consumers' perceptions of such harmful inpatient experiences, events that the authors place under the rubric of "sanctuary harm." METHODS: The authors conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with 27 randomly selected mental health consumers to hear their descriptions of adverse events that they experienced while receiving psychiatric care. Our analysis of interview transcriptions focused on understanding consumers' narratives of harmful experiences—events that would not meet DSM-IV criteria for trauma but that nevertheless resulted in significant distress. RESULTS: Eighteen of 27 interviewees described harmful incidents that they had witnessed or experienced dire... |
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