FREE Events
FREE Events
A Series of Free Events – Wednesday Monthly Movie Nights
Toward Reducing Restrictive Practice Series
February-July 2024
Session 1: Reducing Restrictive Practice using Neuroscience
Video and Community discussion
Wednesday 21st February
6pm via Zoom
Restrictive practice is any intervention that is used to restrict the rights or freedom of movement of a person and includes chemical restraint, mechanical restraint, physical restraint, and seclusion.
Learn a simple, easy to learn therapeutic approach based on neuroscience that can markedly reduce the need for restrictive practice and empower clinicians who are interested in relational practice. Claire Hudson-McAuley (CHM) presents a video on the Polyvagal Theory from Stephen Porges- useful for clinicians who are stressed as well as for clients!
Session hosted by TGH.
Session 2: Reducing Restrictive Practice: Safe Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs
A Mad in America presentation by Doctor Mark Horowitz
Video and Community discussion
Wednesday 20th March
What is medication tapering? Mark Horowitz explains factors that contribute to successful outcomes for service users who go through the deprescribing and tapering process. New recommendations for deprescribing and safely tapering antidepressants, benzodiazepines, z-drugs, gabapentinoids, and opioids have been made based on input from service users and a global survey, leading to new guidelines in the NHS.
These recommendations were recently published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE by a team of authors from the United Kingdom, including Ruth E. Cooper, Michael Ashman, Jo Lomani, Joanna Moncrieff, Anne Guy, James Davies, Nicola Morant, and Mark Horowitz.
Session hosted by TGH.
Session 3: Reducing Restrictive Practice: Parts Work with Distressed Clients
Video and Community discussion
Wednesday 17th April
6pm via Zoom
Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach is simple, easy to learn and reduces the need for restrictive practices. Useful for adults, children, and families, clients who are suicidal or who self-harm, clients with addictions, dysregulated clients, angry, anxious or depressed clients or revolving door clients, this is an empowering and extremely flexible approach. Useful for stressed staff too!
Session hosted by TGH
Session 4: Reducing Restrictive Practice: Somatic Parts work with Distressed Clients
Video and Community discussion
Wednesday 15th May
6pm via Zoom
The answer to the erosion of skills within the current system is the restoration of pride and confidence in our original therapeutic and relational roles. We need new skills to work this way.
Susan McConnell’s somatic approach to IFS builds on the IFS introduction from last month, and expands options for more relational and less restrictive practices. Useful for clients who have DSM labels, stuck patterns, dissociation or shame, this is an empowering and extremely flexible approach. Useful for stressed staff too!
Session hosted by TGH.
Session 5: Reducing Restrictive Practice: Using the Self to Calm the Mind
Movie and Community Practice
Wednesday 19th June
6pm via Zoom
Using the Self to calm the mind is useful when words fail. When the usual forms of communication are not working, this approach can be powerful in rapidly re-regulating distressed clients, while supporting clinicians to feel more empowered.
Relational somatic approaches are simple and easy to learn and offer a path to less restrictive interventions and better relationships with clients. Based on the work of Pat Ogden and Dr. Stan Tatkin, this session includes a quiz to increase awareness of Self as therapist and our “factory default settings”.
Session hosted by TGH.
Session 6: Reducing Restrictive Practice: The Myth of the Chemical Cure
Dr Joanna Moncrieff
Movie and Community Discussion
Wednesday 17th July
6pm
Restrictive practice is any intervention that is used to restrict the rights or freedom of movement of a person and includes chemical restraint.
Dr. Moncrieff’s research has thoroughly debunked the myth of the chemical imbalance, and challenged the benefits of antipsychotic and antidepressant medication.
Her studies have sent shock waves throughout the psychiatric community. She is currently leading a UK government-funded study of antipsychotic reduction and discontinuation. Reducing restrictive practice means we need to recognise that the biomedical model creates over-reliance on medication in mental health, based on a marketing myth rather than science. Hopefully this recognition moves us toward a more relational and therapeutic role.
Session hosted by TGH.
