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The N. Neal Pike Institute on Law and Disability produces a newsletter outlining current cases in Disability Law. Please visit their website at http://www.bu.edu/pike/talk/ to learn more.
Got Problems with the Registry?
At our December, 1999, meeting, for instance, members noted that:
If you have had any problems with the Registry, especially with these issues, please contact Poly Cobb
Has you tried this and how has it worked?
CLRD is interested in hearing from parents of children with extreme behaviors who have had their children enrolled in programs which use so-called Aversive "Therapy." What has been your experience?
Were Aversives used only for life threatening or agressives behaviors?
Were Aversives used to prevent your child from engaging in behaviors that might lead to life threatening or agressive behaviors?
Were Aversives used to punish other kinds of behaviors (not life threatening or agressive)?
Do you feel that Aversives have had a generally positive effect on your child's behaviors? Please explain....
To respond to this survey, please contact Poly Cobb.
If you are willing to have us contact you, please include your home phone number & name.
The Restraint Conference, held in the fall of 1999, generated many questions about The Uses
of Restraints and the abuses associated with that use. below are some links
that may prove helpful if you wish to learn more about this vital issue.
go to http://thomas.loc.gov
S.736 Freedom From Restraint Act of 1999
S.750 Compassionate Care Act of 1999
H.R.1313 Patient Freedom from Restraint Act of 1999
H.R.3010 Restraint Safety Act of 1999
S. 569 - Massachusetts General Court http://www.state.ma.us/legis/history/s00569.htm
Massachusetts Statutes and Regulations
Chapter 123: Section 12. Emergency restraint of dangerous persons. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/123%2D12.htm
Chapter 123: Section 21. Restraint of mentally ill persons. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/123%2D21.htm
Chapter 123B: Section 8. Restraint of mentally retarded persons. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/123b%2D8.htm
Office of Child Care Services 102 CMR 3.00: Standards for the Licensure or Approval of Residential Programs Serving Children and Teen Parents. http://www.qualitychildcare.org/
DPH Guidelines on the Use of Restraint in Long term care facilities. http://www.state.ma.us/dph/rstraint.htm
FDA Safety Alert: Entrapment Hazards with Hospital Bed Side Rails http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/bedrails.html
FDA : Safe Use Of Physical Restraint Devices http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/safeuse.html HCFA Newsletter publicizing the Restraint Reduction Initiative to reduce the national physical and chemical restraint rate in nursing homes. http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/rrnews.html
New York State Regulations: http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/chap334.htm
Tennesse DMR Restraint Regulations: http://www.taba.org/restraint.htm
Amarillo Independent School District: Local Operating Guidelines for use of Physical Restraint http://www.amarillo.isd.tenet.edu/speced/physrest.htm
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine :The Use of Physical Restraint Interventions for Children and Adolescents in the Acute Care Setting http://www.aap.org/policy/re9713.htm
American Association of Psychiatric Technicians, Inc. http://www.aapt.com/archives.htm
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses (MARN) position statement on restraint www.marn.mb.ca/restrain.htm NIH Clinical Center Nursing Department Restraint Application http://www.cc.nih.gov/nursing/restproc2.html
Hartford Courant Series: http://www.courant.com/news/special/restraint/index.stm
Balancing Safety and Patient's Rights: Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/in-depth/mentalhealth/index.html
Call For Investigation Of Nursing Home Care Issued: Pennsylvania State. http://www.pahouse.net/blaum/pr/121031798.htm
Mandt System - training.http://www.mandtsystem.com/cover.html
Nicholas G. Castle & Barry Fogel, "Characteristics of Nursing Homes that are Restraint Free," The Gerontologist, April 1998, pp.181-188. http://www.continuingcare.org/v1n1/restraints.html
Pediatric Applications: Arm Restraints: Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati) http://www.chmcc.org/pep/pep2045.htm
Psychiatrist Speaks on Correct Restraint Procedures http://hometown.wuzzup.com/vol07/issue14/0714REST.HTML
Restraint and Seclusion: Improving Practice and Conquering the JCAHO Standards by Jack Zusman, MD http://www.opuscomm.com/books/toc/restrainttoc.html
Training for Parents: http://typhoon.coedu.usf.edu/fdlrs/SafeRestraint.html
Coalition for the Legal Rights of People with Disabilities http://www.psychiatry.com/clrd/
Disability Law Center http://www.dlc-ma.org/
Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee http://www.state.ma.us/mhlac/
M-Power http://www.m-power.org/
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill www.nami.org
TASH www.tash.org
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy http://www.connix.com/~narpa/
Commission Quality of Care http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/cqcorg.htm
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