{"id":2895,"date":"2021-07-24T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2021-07-24T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:19:12","slug":"nasmhpds-position-statement-on-seclusion-and-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/nasmhpds-position-statement-on-seclusion-and-restraint\/","title":{"rendered":"NASMHPD&#8217;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150218133117\/http:\/\/www.nasmhpd.org\/docs\/policy\/S&amp;R%20position%20statement.Forensic%20Div.%20prop.%20approved%20by%20NASMHPD.07.07.final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NASMHPD&#8217;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; The members of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) believe that seclusion and restraint, including &#8220;chemical restraints,&#8221; are safety interventions of last resort and are not treatment interventions. Violence-free and coercion-free mental health treatment environments can be accomplished using the Six Core Strategies to Reduce the Use of Seclusion and Restraint Planning Tool developed by National Technical Assistance Center (NTAC). Seclusion and restraint should never be used for the purposes of discipline, coercion, or staff convenience, or as a replacement for adequate levels of staff or active treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASMHPD&#8217;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint &#8211; The members of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NASMHPD&#039;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint - BREAKING CODE SILENCE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/nasmhpds-position-statement-on-seclusion-and-restraint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASMHPD&#039;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint - BREAKING CODE SILENCE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NASMHPD&#8217;s Position Statement on Seclusion and Restraint &#8211; 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