BIO
Joy Duxbury is a mental health nurse and Professor of Mental Health at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked on numerous funded projects pertaining to mental health including the exploration of service user perspectives and implementation. Her national and international focus has been upon minimizing restrictive practices across varied settings in the UK and globally. She is currently working with colleagues on an EU funded bid looking at ‘Fostering and Strengthening Approaches to Reducing Coercion in European Mental Health Services (FOSTREN) with a particular focus upon implementation approaches and is leading on a large national research project exploring the experiences of Black Afro Caribbean Men who have been detained using the Mental Health Act.
Joy has written extensively on this subject of mental health over the past 20 years and secured several large grants to examine coercion and social injustices using participatory and co-creation methods.
As a result of her profile in this area, Joy was Chair of the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group and currently remains a board member. She is Trustee and Chair of the Restraint Reduction Network. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Eileen Skellern Award in 2014 and more recently an OBE in 2021.
DESCRIPTION OF PRESENTATION
– The disproportionate use of force in mental health settings – Time to flip the narrative
The disproportionate use of force in mental health settings and beyond is a significant issue in the modern-day care of the most vulnerable individuals in society. A range of inequalities are evident and impact upon the quality of care that certain populations experience.
The disparities are extensive and include matters pertaining to ethnicity, age, gender, and disorder. These clearly affect the experiences of those involved and need to be addressed. In order to do this, we need not only to understand the extent and nature of the problem in terms of accurate reporting but also how to understand the challenges faced by all parties. Clearly participatory action approaches such as experience based co-design can help drive the changes required going forward.
I will present some of the evidence base on the current position and highlight some research we have been working on to co-create new ways of working that align to the values and principles of minimising restrictive practices recognising the multicomplex nature of the issues and therefore the need for multimodal trauma informed and human rights orientated approaches.