How Should Trainees Be Taught to Have Compassionate Intention When Force Is Necessary to Care Well for Patients?

Trainees are expected to encounter clinical training environments and situations that utilize methods of force as a component of clinical care. These include emergency care, critical care, and psychiatry. Several educational recommendations are offered in this paper related to these situations-including de-escalation training and crisis management skills, trauma-informed care, person-centered care approaches, and compassionate care approaches-to support trainee development across clinical care settings. Trainees require supervisors' focused attention to consider and implement force when caring for a diverse range of patients and retraumatization risk. Minimization of the need for forced care and the implementation of compassionate force in treatment require thoughtful and comprehensive educational plans.