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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: ZenAgent on January 22, 2007, 02:53:30 PM
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Probably somewhere on here, but I've been reading this today...from NAMI.
Child and Adolescent Inpatient Restraint Reduction:
A State Initiative to Promote Strength-Based Care
Janice LeBel, Ed.D., Nan Stromberg, R.N., C.S., Ken Duckworth, M.D., Joan Kerzner, M.S.P.A., Robert Goldstein, Ph.D., Michael Weeks, B.A., Gordon Harper, M.D., Lareina LaFlair, M.P.H., Marylou Sudders, A.C.S.W. From the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (J.L., N.S., K.D., J.K., R.G., M.W., G.H.); formerly with the Department (L.L., M.S.).
"To detain maniacs in constant seclusion, and to load them with chains...is... more distinguished for its convenience than for its humanity or its success." (Goshen, 1967) (p. 264)[/b]
Despite intermittent efforts since Pinel removed chains from the insane in 18th-century France (Weiner, 1992), restraint and seclusion (R/S) have remained prominent in psychiatric practice (Rothman, 2002). Opinions differ as to its utility and efficacy. In the last decade, concern has focused increasingly R/S use in psychiatric treatment, particularly with children and adolescents. Some have argued that R/S is a necessary safety measure, perhaps even a necessary part of child/adolescent treatment (Cotton, 1989; Gair, 1980,1984). This practice has been challenged by a body of published evidence and by criticism in both lay and professional communities. But there have been few reports of effective strategies to curtail or provide alternatives to R/S use with children and adolescents. This paper describes such an initiative by the State Mental Health Authority (SMHA) in Massachusetts, and its effects.
In the media, a Pulitzer Prize-winning series in The Hartford Courant reported 142 deaths, over ten years, of patients who were being restrained. More than 26% of these deaths involved children and adolescents, nearly double the proportion of these cohorts in psychiatric institutions nationwide (Weiss, 1998).
The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) set the following goal in its Behavioral Health Care Restraint and Seclusion Standards (JCAHO, 2001):
Because restraint and seclusion have the potential to produce serious consequences, such as physical and psychological harm, loss of dignity, violation of an individual?s rights, and even death, organizations continually explore ways to prevent, reduce, and strive to eliminate the use of restraint and seclusion through effective performance initiatives.
Trauma[/b]
The use of R/S poses increased risks for children and adolescents whose histories often include physical, sexual and emotional trauma. In one study, trauma histories were present in up to 93% of hospitalized adolescents, 32% of whom met the criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (Lipschitz et al., 1999). Another study concluded that children with a history of acute trauma retained psychological sequelae from the experience of R/S that continued to affect their mental and physical health (Lewandowski and Baranoski, 1994). In addition, the failure to recognize childhood trauma and abuse produces iatrogenic effects (Carmen et al., 1996; Jennings, 1994). Finally, for those with childhood trauma histories, using R/S makes the hospital, the intended site of healing, a place of new trauma (Carmen et al., 1996; Jennings, 1994; Rosenberg et al., 2001). One consumer advocate described how the experience of restraint recapitulated her childhood trauma:
Rather than deterring anything, these episodes perpetuated a vicious cycle. The more I was restrained, the more humiliation I felt. The more shame and humiliation I felt, the more I dissociated, self-injured, and was restrained. (Prescott, 2000) (p. 98)
Staff perspective[/b]
Staff see R/S more favorably than child and adolescent patients, even when acknowledging the lack of evidence of its benefit (Allen, 2000). Some concede that R/S may be harmful to children, adolescents, adults and staff but see it nonetheless as effective in preventing injury and agitation (Fisher, 1994). There is evidence that their gender, level of education, and degree of clinical experience affect staff's decision to use R/S with children and adolescents (Busch and Shore, 2000; Garrison, 1984).
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Jack time... briefly.
Anyway, yanno... simple empathy would let you know "gee, if that was done to me, that would totally suck!" yet we need papers and big names and shrinks to put it on paper?
WTF?
Jack time over... back to your regularly scheduled papers and nonsense that common sense, empathy, and kindness would negate the necessity of :roll:
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
I had to read that twice, but it sounds like it beats the hell out of having five bovine bull-dykes squat on a kid. At PV, restraint is followed up with seclusion as icing on the cake. I'm pissed off today, I feel like posting the name of every abusive cock-stain who works at PV with a list of their known abuses and unethical practices. Maybe I will, that might cause some hellish big trouble.
Nah.
Oh yeah, cops here don't fuck about with trying to restrain a knife-wielder, they just put three in his dome. End of conflict.
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This girl would be cool in an attempted restraint
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3084426841 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7087616443084426841)
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I feel like posting the name of every abusive cock-stain who works at PV with a list of their known abuses and unethical practices. Maybe I will, that might cause some hellish big trouble.
Now now, ZenAgent. Reposting things like that can get you into trouble too. Now, if some anonymous guest, working through a good overseas proxy such as Guardster (http://http://www.guardster.com) did such a thing, there really wouldn't be anyone to point a finger at.
There's also the fact that most of the guests on this site are filled to the brim with hatred and would probably be willing to repost those things everywhere they possibly could (on places other than Fornits as well), using the same proxy of course. Not much that could be done about them if they chose to do that.
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Or perhaps a guest from overseas, from a socialist country that actually has freedom of speech?
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It's okay to squash the little buggers, Gawd Almighty wants you to.
http://nospank.net/nytimes3.htm (http://nospank.net/nytimes3.htm)
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Or perhaps a guest from overseas, from a socialist country that actually has freedom of speech?
Send them to me, I'll post them :D
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
After reading that I can't help but feel creeped out. :scared: For a couple reasons I dont want to get into.. lol
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
After reading that I can't help but feel creeped out. :scared: For a couple reasons I dont want to get into.. lol
My wife witnessed a "restraint" at Peninsula Village involving a group of counselors sitting on her daughters legs, arms, and back while the child's' face was on the concrete. To make matters worse, certain members of the staff were actually laughing at my daughter's screams. The laughing turned to alarm when my wife produced a camera and started snapping pictures. Staffers were screaming "she's got a camera!" like it was a gun. The staff's reaction indicated they knew what they were doing was improper, if not inhuman. They banned my wife from the program for taking the pictures, citing patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality is supposed to protect the patient, but who was Peninsula Village protecting? They were protecting their own vicious, unprofessional and lazy asses. Patient confidentiality shouldn't be a shield for programs to hide their abuses behind.
What exhausted describes sounds a little odd, but in comparison with a brutal assault like the one above, it sounds warm and fuzzy.
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Do you still have those pictures?
If so I would advise that you write a freelance article for some print news companies in your area and in the area PV is located, I can't see how anyone could justify those pictures or PV banning your wife from the facility because of it........
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
After reading that I can't help but feel creeped out. :scared: For a couple reasons I dont want to get into.. lol
I don't think I explained it very we...
Okay the child is in front of the carer, thhe childs arms are wrapped around themselves as if they are hugging themselves, the carer is also hugging the arms from behind, it's quite a tight hold but it does stop any injuries to the chikld or others until they calm down, which is very quickly as they are soothed by the blnaket effect - like a baby being wrapped up tight so he doesn't miss the restricted feeling in the womb.......
Moving on to the pics of your wife taking photos - sorry but if that'd been my kid, that camera would have cracked a few skulls that day & my kid would have come home with me immediately.
My wife witnessed a "restraint" at Peninsula Village involving a group of counselors sitting on her daughters legs, arms, and back while the child's' face was on the concrete. To make matters worse, certain members of the staff were actually laughing at my daughter's screams. The laughing turned to alarm when my wife produced a camera and started snapping pictures. Staffers were screaming "she's got a camera!" like it was a gun. The staff's reaction indicated they knew what they were doing was improper, if not inhuman. They banned my wife from the program for taking the pictures, citing patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality is supposed to protect the patient, but who was Peninsula Village protecting? They were protecting their own vicious, unprofessional and lazy asses. Patient confidentiality shouldn't be a shield for programs to hide their abuses behind.
What exhausted describes sounds a little odd, but in comparison with a brutal assault like the one above, it sounds warm and fuzzy.
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Restraining is sometimes necessary, you can't expect the police not to restrain someone who is trying to attack them with a blade, I also happen to know that child restraining techniques are used on children who are disabled (i.e. Bi Polar, manic depression, ADHD etc) and are likely to 'flip out' - however I don't know how this is dealt with in the US, but in the UK it is done by sitting the child on the floor, (preferably on a bean bag) wrapping your arms around theirs and 'holding' them, rocking slowly from side to side in a soothing motion, it's very effective, the child cannot be hurt and it does calm them, I believe it has something to do with reminding them how it was to be in the womb again (Ugh, brings images of re-birthing, I can't shake that)
After reading that I can't help but feel creeped out. :scared: For a couple reasons I dont want to get into.. lol
I don't think I explained it very we...
Okay the child is in front of the carer, thhe childs arms are wrapped around themselves as if they are hugging themselves, the carer is also hugging the arms from behind, it's quite a tight hold but it does stop any injuries to the chikld or others until they calm down, which is very quickly as they are soothed by the blnaket effect - like a baby being wrapped up tight so he doesn't miss the restricted feeling in the womb.......
Moving on to the pics of your wife taking photos - sorry but if that'd been my kid, that camera would have cracked a few skulls that day & my kid would have come home with me immediately.
Sounds good, but custody was an issue...So,my wife would have been arrested for kidnapping, or more than likely fly-tackled by the group of goon onlookers itching for a reason to ensure that camera met with an "accident". Cool heads last longer.
The pictures are in the attorney's custody, he wants them under wraps to use as the KO punch. He didn't even want them in our house, for security and to avoid me losing it and posting them here , there, and everywhere. After he's done, I'd like to see them on the cover of every newspaper in America. Peninsula Village is one of the many, but let's play dominoes.
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I'd get way, way too paranoid if the pictures were in any custody but my own. I hope he doesn't lose them...
If I were you, I'd give several someone elses a copy for safekeeping.
...do you still have the negatives, or was this done with a digital camera?
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Ooh... To programs.. cameras are far far more dangerous than guns. I wish more people would do what your wife did. It was ballsy, but brilliant.
I aggree with Milk though. Make duplicates. Put one set in a safe deposit, send another to a trusted friend (tell nobody you who).. etc...
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I apologyise Zen, it wasn't meant as a criticism - I am not like your wife, I don't think, I go in fists - a - flying, you're right, a picture paints a million words and evidence is a good thing
I can't stand injustice, maybe I'm too hot headed for my own good, I don't know, but I do know i would have had a fair old fight with the bullies, taken the kid and suffered the consequence later (kidnap charge or whatever) making my little outburst no good to anyone
But I'd feel better about it all :D
I just read back on my atrocious spelling - was in a hurry :oops:
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GET COPIES OF THOSE FUCKING PICTURES.
I can host them where they can not be found, or for that matter REMOVED.
If you don't trust me with them I'll tell you how to do the same.
I have a private message box, so uh... yeah.
BTW, you did use a digital camera, right? That would make this oh so much easier.
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would rather see them pics showing close ups of bloodied bullies and the surprised looks on their faces as they realise a camera is hurtling towards them at 100 mph
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I apologyise Zen, it wasn't meant as a criticism - I am not like your wife, I don't think, I go in fists - a - flying, you're right, a picture paints a million words and evidence is a good thing
I can't stand injustice, maybe I'm too hot headed for my own good, I don't know, but I do know i would have had a fair old fight with the bullies, taken the kid and suffered the consequence later (kidnap charge or whatever) making my little outburst no good to anyone
But I'd feel better about it all :D
I just read back on my atrocious spelling - was in a hurry :oops:
Hey lets become a tag-team, and dish out some serious super violent vigilante justice!!
Ok ok..... I'm back to earth now
ZA, get copies but don't print them anywhere intill after the custody thing. I would hate for you and your family to suffer just for trying to get the word out about PV
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Don't you have a safety deposit box system that you can stash things in over there?
An Investment to say the least.
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Agreed. Exhausted, you're right; almost every bank in the States has a safety deposit box system. An SDB would be an excellent choice.
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(http://http://www.agpix.com/catalog/AGPix_ardea/large/AGPix_ardea_0001_Lg.jpg)
Someones about to get RESTRAINED!
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Agreed. Exhausted, you're right; almost every bank in the States has a safety deposit box system. An SDB would be an excellent choice.
Agreed. There was an issue with exposure in the pictures, we were afraid they didn't come out well enough to use. The power of digital photography... Photoshop fixed them better than I thought possible.
I have the stick out of the camera. I leave it at that. Our attorney has a plan...so does an advocate group.
Exhausted, I took no offense. If I had been there, I would have mixed it up with the fat women doing the "restraint". They may have taken me down, but I would have ripped the mullet off at least one of those diesel dykes.
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heh - good, glad to see I'm not completely abnormal (Questionable)
Good luck with hiding your evidence, hope it all goes well for you and the rest of the unfortunates that go through this 'body squashing' - how many fatties does it take to keep one kid down for Chrissake anyway?