For anyone who has worked with children with severe
behavioral issues, you know firsthand that it can be quite a challenge to find
techniques that keep everyone safe while simultaneously providing the child
with important skills and tools to better manage his behavior in the future.
But such strategies and techniques do exist; furthermore, there are exceptional trainings available.
Below is a link to an ABC News report that demonstrates the prospective
complications with using restraints and other potentially dangerous techniques
on children, some of which have resulted in major injury and even death. There
are better ways. I have had the privilege of being trained by Neuropsychiatrist
Dr. Bruce Perry on alternatives to restraint. Dr. Perry has an informative website
about working with children with emotional and behavioral issues (http://www.childtrauma.org/) in a very
humane way.
Here is the ABC News link:
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