Family-Based Intervention Lowers Long-Term Suicide Risk in Youth – Over the last 20 years, suicide rates have increased in the U.S. by 24%, with the largest increases occurring in females ages 10-14 and African American children aged 5-11. These statistics highlight the critical need for better ways to understand and prevent suicide in youth […]
Beyond Point and Level Systems: Moving Toward Child-Centered Programming – Many residential treatment facilities and child inpatient units in the United States have been structured by way of motivational programming such as the point and/or level systems. On the surface, they appear to be a straightforward contingency management tool that is based on social […]
Testimony of Dr Stuart Grassian – The author, Dr. Grassian, is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who was on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over twenty-five years. He has had extensive experience in evaluating the psychiatric effects of solitary confinement, and in the course of his professional involvement, has been involved as […]
Self-Regulation: The Impact of Trauma – To this day, many children are still experiencing the effects of the trauma that their grandparents and parents went through in residential schools. Other events in a child’s life can also be traumatic and have a similar long-term impact. Understanding why and how trauma affects the brain can […]
Evaluation of a Program Model for Minimizing Restraint and Seclusion – This study conducted a longitudinal evaluation of an organizational change effort to minimize restraint and seclusion within a behavioral healthcare facility that serves at-risk and high-risk clients with intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities, using a context, input, process, and product model. The change […]
2017-18 Civil Rights Data Collection: The Use of Restraint and Seclusion on Children with Disabilities in K-12 Schools – The 2017–18 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of nearly all public schools and school districts in the United States. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, staff, and resources that relate […]
2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection – School Climate and Safety – The 2015–16 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of public schools and school districts in the United States. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, staff, and resources that impact education equity and opportunity for students.The CRDC has long provided […]
Students Traumatized in Special Education Across America, Seclusion, Restraint, and Aversives – For over a decade, the United States Health & Human Services Department’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recognized that seclusion and restraint are traumatic NOT therapeutic. Mental health experts have developed tools and protocols that have successfully helped […]
Keeping All Students Safe Act – A bill to prohibit and prevent seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing, and to prevent and reduce the use of physical restraint in schools, and for other purposes.
How Safe Is the Schoolhouse? An Analysis of State Seclusion and Restraint Laws and Policies – This report was revised in 2019 to discuss new state restraint and seclusion statutes, regulations, rules, and policies. It includes all laws in effect as of July 1, 2019. This updates earlier versions of the report. The first […]
