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- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition
- Chapter 2 Psychiatric Intensive Care in Mental Health Secure Units
- Chapter 3 National Standards and Good Practice
- Chapter 4 Commissioning and Developing a PICU
- Chapter 5 PICU Design, Environment and Security
- Chapter 6 Team Resilience
- Chapter 7 Principles and Practice for Management of Acutely Disturbed Patients
- Chapter 8 Absconding
- Chapter 9 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 10 Fire-Setting and Arson
- Chapter 11 Sexually Problematic Behaviour in Mental Health Inpatient Units
- Chapter 12 Self-Harm and Personality Disorders in PICU
- Chapter 13 Activity and Positive Engagement within a PICU
- Chapter 14 De-escalation
- Chapter 15 Psychological Approaches to the Acute Patient in PICUs
- Chapter 16 A Social Behaviour Theory Approach to Challenging Behaviours in Psychosis
- Chapter 17 Pharmacological Therapy
- Chapter 18 Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 19 The Use of Seclusion in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 20 The Practice of Restraint and Physical Intervention
- Chapter 21 Management of the Mental Health Emergency in the Community
- Chapter 22 PICU for the Care of Young People
- Chapter 23 Female-Only PICUs
- Chapter 24 The Complex Needs Patient
- Chapter 25 Psychiatric Intensive Care in General Hospital Settings
- Chapter 26 An Overview of International Perspectives on PICUs
- Index
- References
Chapter 13 - Activity and Positive Engagement within a PICU
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2024
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition
- Chapter 2 Psychiatric Intensive Care in Mental Health Secure Units
- Chapter 3 National Standards and Good Practice
- Chapter 4 Commissioning and Developing a PICU
- Chapter 5 PICU Design, Environment and Security
- Chapter 6 Team Resilience
- Chapter 7 Principles and Practice for Management of Acutely Disturbed Patients
- Chapter 8 Absconding
- Chapter 9 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 10 Fire-Setting and Arson
- Chapter 11 Sexually Problematic Behaviour in Mental Health Inpatient Units
- Chapter 12 Self-Harm and Personality Disorders in PICU
- Chapter 13 Activity and Positive Engagement within a PICU
- Chapter 14 De-escalation
- Chapter 15 Psychological Approaches to the Acute Patient in PICUs
- Chapter 16 A Social Behaviour Theory Approach to Challenging Behaviours in Psychosis
- Chapter 17 Pharmacological Therapy
- Chapter 18 Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 19 The Use of Seclusion in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 20 The Practice of Restraint and Physical Intervention
- Chapter 21 Management of the Mental Health Emergency in the Community
- Chapter 22 PICU for the Care of Young People
- Chapter 23 Female-Only PICUs
- Chapter 24 The Complex Needs Patient
- Chapter 25 Psychiatric Intensive Care in General Hospital Settings
- Chapter 26 An Overview of International Perspectives on PICUs
- Index
- References
Summary
Being able to do activities is an inherent human need and essential to health and well-being. This chapter relates this need to the altered experience of activity participation for people who are patients within a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU). It explains the negative impact of impaired functioning, occupational deprivation and boredom and the converse positive effect of adequate meaningful activity provision for patients, staff and the service as a whole. It discusses how engaging patients in activity can prevent, reduce and help to manage violence and aggression. This is balanced by a discussion of how enabling positive engagement through use of activity requires careful assessment, which includes considering the environment, different aspects of functioning such as sensory processing and the risks associated with the activities described herein. The chapter provides information on a wide range of activities for individual and group-based programmes, including enabling activity participation in seclusion and using sensory interventions.
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- Psychiatric Intensive Care , pp. 159 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024