{"id":195913,"date":"2025-12-17T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:14:18","slug":"restrictive-practices-at-lowest-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195913\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictive practices at lowest levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Physical restraint accounted for over 70 per cent of all reported restrictive practices in mental health centres last year.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the latest Mental Health Commission report shows an almost 50 per cent decline in the use of such practices, which involve physically restraining a person or secluding them from others.<\/p>\n<p>John Farrelly, CEO of the Mental Health Commission, says Ireland is focusing on a human rights approach:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NEWSTALK202512120057.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NEWSTALK202512120057.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Physical restraint accounted for over 70 per cent of all reported restrictive practices in mental health centres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-195913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}