New article: Tina Kirstine Vestphal, Frederik A. Gildberg, Rikke Jørgensen, Sara Rowaert, Ellen Boldrup Tingleff (2024) Family caregiver involvement in forensic mental health care – A qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perceptions.

Pårørende i psykiatrien – Viden, virkelighed og nye perspektiver Center for Psykiatrisk Sygepleje og Sundhedsforskning (CPS) og Retspsykiatrisk Forskningsenhed Middelfart (RFM) inviterer til konference. DATO: tirsdag d. 17. marts 2026 TID: Kl.9.00-15.30 STED: Severin, Skovsvinget 25, Middelfart PRIS: 850 kr. More information in Danish here

Today we publish our @NIHRresearch report on #WardSonar the 1st attempt to ask patients on acute mental health wards to measure and report changes in perceptions of safety in real-time. The details of which can be found here. We have deepened our understanding of the co-design of digital interventions, explored milieu and contagion, and been able…

Lindekilde, C. R., Pedersen, M. L., Birkeland, S., Hvidhjelm, J., Baker, J. & Gildberg, F., (2024) Mental Health Patients’ Preferences Regarding Restrictive Interventions: an Integrative Review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (E-pub ahead of print). AbstractIntroduction: The use of restrictive interventions is a violation of patients’ rights thatcauses physical and psychological harm and which is a well-known challenge globally.Mental health…

Birkeland, Søren LLM, PhD1,2; Gildberg, Frederik Alkier PhD1; Tingleff, Ellen Boldrup PhD1; Pedersen, Martin Locht RN1; Lindekilde, Camilla MSc1,3; Morsø, Lars PhD2,4; Bogh, Søren Bie PhD2,4. Perceptions Among Mental Health Professionals Regarding the Intrusiveness of Coercive Measures: A Danish Regional Survey. Journal of Forensic Nursing 21(2):p 120-127, 4/6 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/JFN.0000000000000524 Background: Although hotly…

Søren Birkeland, Tilman Steinert, Richard Whittington, Frederik Gildberg (2024) Abolition of coercion in mental health services – a European survey of feasibility. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 94, doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101992. ABSTRACTBackground: In 2019, the Council of Europe agreed to urge member states to take steps toward total abolition of psychiatric coercive measures.Aims: To test…

Pedersen, M. L., Gildberg, F., Bogh, S. B., Birkeland, S. & Tingleff, E., 2024, Staff responses to interventions aiming to reduce mechanical restraint in adult mental health inpatient settings: a questionnaire-based survey. (E-pub ahead of print) I: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. ABSTRACTPurpose: To explore mental health staff’s responses towards interventions designed to reduce the useof mechanical restraint (MR) in adult mental health inpatient…