{"id":2913,"date":"2021-07-24T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2021-07-24T14:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:41:49","slug":"mental-health-america-seclusion-and-restraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/mental-health-america-seclusion-and-restraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhanational.org\/issues\/position-statement-24-seclusion-and-restraints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Seclusion and restraints have no therapeutic value, cause human suffering, and frequently result in severe emotional and physical harm, and even death. Therefore, as a matter of fundamental policy, Mental Health America (MHA) urges abolition of the use of seclusion and mechanical restraints and prohibition of the use of sedatives and other medications as chemical restraints and elimination of the use of physical restraints except for very brief periods and only when necessary to prevent imminent physical harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints &#8211; Seclusion and restraints have no therapeutic value, cause human suffering, and frequently result [&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>Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints - 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\/mental-health-america-seclusion-and-restraints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints - BREAKING CODE SILENCE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mental Health America: Seclusion and Restraints &#8211; 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