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Listen to thisMy name is Leanne McGillen. I am currently
attending Red River College in the Child and Youth Care program. I am
currently working on an assignment that deals with the issue of ethics in
this practice. My current issue that I'm working on is the issue of use of
quiet rooms and when or if they should be used in our practice. Any
information or links to reference sites would be much appreciated. Thank you
for your time.
Leanne McGillen
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Hi Leanne--this sounds like an interesting and worthy paper. I wrote an
article a few years ago that was a point:counterpoint entitled "Locked
Isolation: Is it Best Practice or Abuse?". It was published in the Child
Welfare League of America's Residential Group Care Quarterly in Fall
2000 edition. I took the position that before labeling locked isolation as
"abuse" one needed to see a bigger picture--but that locked isolation should
never be considered "best practice" in any sense. A program that was using
this method had an ethical obligation to address the elimination of the
practice as a priority and had to consider that either they did not have
enough resources to care for the kids in their program at a best practice
level--or they were not using the resources they have creatively enough.
I cannot send you a copy electronically but if you contact the Child Welfare League of America at www.cwla.org that may lead you to a link.
Good luck with the paper. I hope you share some of your conclusions.
Frank Delano
Director JBFCS Institute for Child Care Professionalization and Training,
New York, NY
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Frank's paper about the way to relate to locked isolation sounds most
interesting. We in Israel are also asking ourselves questions about this
kind of crisis intervention method. I would be most grateful if you could
send me a copy of your article: "Locked isolation: is it best practice or
abuse?".
Thanks in advance,
Emmanuel Grupper,
Director of residential and care department, Israeli Ministry of Education
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As a Child and Youth Therapist (who has never practiced in a residential
setting) I am quite appalled to learn that in the 21st century such a
practice is still in use.
With all the available literature on ecological-developmental context and
interventions why would such a practice – abuse in its very nature – be
accepted?
Johanne
Saraceno, B.C. Canada
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If you receive a copy of "locked isolation" please forward it to me, as I
would be very interested in it.
Tim Nolan
