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Hrt2hrtScandal:

--- Quote from: ""Three Springs Waygookin"" ---What sort of social interactions where you allowed in the STU?

ie.. could you talk to other "patients"?

How about recreational activities ie. tv, playing board games, reading books etc Is that allowed in the STU?
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In girls lock-down staff had to be aware of all conversations. Depending on what staff was there or what mood they were in If you got caught talking you either had to turn and face the wall, go to seclusion or have an hour of silence (which would turn into another hour if you broke your silence)
No books, TV, or music allowed in STU.

Hrt2hrtScandal:

--- Quote from: ""Three Springs Waygookin"" ---Ok sounds like you just sat around twiddling your thumbs for a minimum of 6 weeks.

Did you have, or see, any acting out due to boredom in the STU?
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Lots of people would just fall asleep from medication and boredom and when this happened they got put "on hard chair" as punishment. If you fell asleep you were not allowed to sit on your bed. You would have to get the hard chair and take it with you every where you went. When we had school, it was on our bed in STU. Not many girls are in STU for six weeks. I was there for six months.

Hrt2hrtScandal:

--- Quote from: ""Three Springs Waygookin"" ---I'm going to guess that school isn't happening for STU "patients"?


Also.. for my question:

On what grounds did they "claim" a restraint was called for?
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If you got off your bed without permission they said you were an elopement threat and you could be restrained for that. During a restraint we all had to go to the trusted area and sit with our heads between our legs. In girls STU there were restraints at least every other day and I thought most of them were unfair and unnecessary. The technique they used is called CTCI  and it seems to be unreasonably harsh to me. I saw lots of unfortunate bruises and cuts from restraints. I still have scars on my face from a restraint.

nimdA:
Ok I was trained in the Cornell Method of Theraputic Crisis Intervention (spelling). First the thing that I do know there is a verbal component.

Very few restraints involving TCI happen so quickly that the verbal component can't be utilized. This verbal component is called verbal de-escalation, and the process is as follows:

You identify the resident is in a crisis situation where he is potentially causing harm to self, others or property of significant value. First you attempt to communicate with him or her.

I never would have attempted a restraint without attempting to resolve the crisis verbally.
This can be a simple series of questions.

1) Are you ok?
2) What can I do to help you?

These questions aren't rocket science, but they are designed to stop the crisis and get the client engaged in a meaningful dialogue. Even the most violent of situations needed some sort of verbal component.

Two kids fighting:

1) Break it up boys.

A kid cutting on himself:

1) Maybe you should set that down? Lets have a talk about this ok?


PeeVee seems to have taken the CTCI method and totally perverted it for their own uses. Seriously... getting up off your bed in no way constitutes a deliberate attempt to run away. Nor should running away immediately result in a restraint.

There is still the verbal component.

1) Stretching your legs?
2) Have to go the bathroom?
3) You ok?
4) Want to talk?

Verbal de-escalation is designed to prevent restraints from even occuring. If my memory serves me correctly TCI was created to minimize the actual number of restraints. Not to be used by a crop of goons to batter someone senseless.



Ok rant over... next question..


What determined you were finished with the STU, and who made that decision?

DieYuppieScum:
"What determined you were finished with the STU, and who made that decision?"

Depended... some kids never reach the cabin program and are released simply because their insurence can't cover it anymore. Usualy kids were in STU for a month or two... then the treatment team would decide what clan fit you best. There were only two options for girls at the time of my stay... the frogs and coyotes... but with the boy side there were three options, the bat clan, the bear clan and the hawk clan

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