BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260305T035457EST-8302ez6e8a@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260305T085457Z DESCRIPTION:Safewards and what it has to offer psychiatric care\n\nPsychiat ric wards are not all the same. Some experience ten times more adverse inc idents\, violence\, self-harm etc.\, than others. It is possible to have t wo wards at the same hospital\, situated next door to one another\, with o ne being very disturbed and the other being very quiet\, yet both serving the same function and taking the same sorts of patients. The Safewards Mod el explains how this can happen\, and what we can do to help all our wards become quieter\, calmer\, more peaceful and safer places – for the patien ts and the staff. Interventions derived from the Safewards Model have been shown to work in a strictly randomised controlled trial – the gold standa rd of research evidence. In this presentation the model and the evidence b ehind it will be described. Safewards has now been implemented in many pla ces internationally\, and is backed by a range of social media and online resources. The dissemination strategy and success will also be described\, as will the consumer involvement that has accompanied the research progra mme from the beginning.\n\nBiography\n\nLen Bowers is a qualified psychiat ric nurse with clinical and managerial experience in acute inpatient and c ommunity care. He completed an undergraduate degree\, then a masters and f inally a doctorate\, all by part time study. His doctoral thesis was publi shed as a book (The Social Nature of Mental Illness) in 1998\, and a secon d book about positive attitudes to personality disordered people is influe ntial and widely read. He first became a professor at City University wher e he commenced a program of research into inpatient care\, and ways to red uce conflict (violence\, absconding\, substance use\, rule breaking\, and medication refusal) and containment (as required medication\, coerced seda tion\, seclusion\, special observation\, manual restraint\, etc.). He now leads a team of researchers investigating this issue at the Institute of P sychiatry\, Psychology and Neuroscience\, has completed more than £4 milli on of grant funded research\, and has authored over a hundred peer reviewe d publications. Speaking regularly at international conferences\, Len has advised the UK government on policy issues and contributed to policy guide lines on psychiatric nursing practice.\n\nFor further information\, contac t:\n\nJean-Philippe Gagnon\n Coordinator\, Research CentreDouglas Mental He alth University Institute\n 6875\, LaSalle blvd.\, Montreal (Quebec)\, H4H 1R3\n Phone: 514.761.6131 ext. 2550JeanPhilippe [dot] Gagnon [at] douglas [ dot] mcgill [dot] ca\n\nHosted by Vulnérabilité\, integration sociale et v iolence (VISEV) team and 91ºÚÁÏÍø’s Research Group on Health and Law.\n DTSTART:20151015T201500Z DTEND:20151015T220000Z LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:The Safewards Model - A talk with Len Bowers URL:/channels/event/safewards-model-talk-len-bowers-25 6084 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR