More coercion, less support: A study on post-incident reviews after coercive practice in mental health inpatient care

This open-access research paper looks at post-incident reviews after coercive practices in mental health inpatient settings, such as restraint, seclusion, forced medication, or other restrictive interventions.

The study explores whether people are offered support after these incidents, and how this may vary depending on the type of coercive practice involved and demographic factors.

I was part of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel for this PhD research project, contributing alongside others with direct or indirect experience of inpatient mental health care. I’m sharing it here because post-incident support matters. What happens after restraint, seclusion, forced medication, or other coercive experiences can shape how someone makes sense of what happened, how safe they feel afterwards, and how they relate to services in the future.

This is an academic paper, so some of the language is research-based, but the topic is deeply human: what support people are offered after difficult, frightening, or coercive experiences in hospital.

Read the paper here:
More coercion, less support: A latent class analysis of post-incident reviews for mental health inpatients exposed to coercive practice — PLOS Mental Health