Sensory assessment and therapy to help reduce seclusion use with service users needing psychiatric intensive care

Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-90

  Lee, Stuart J ^a   Cox, Allison ^b,c   Whitecross, Fiona ^b   Williams, Pamela ^a   Hollander, Yitzchak ^b  

^a School of Psychiatry and Psychology ^*  (Australia)

^b The Alfred ^*  (Australia)

^c Occupational Therapy Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute psychiatry; seclusion reduction; sensory assessment; service user engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011454470     PISSN: 17426464     EISSN: 17442206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742646410000014     Document Type: Article

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