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Psychiatric Restraint of Children and Adolescents: Clinical and Legal Aspects

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Juvenile Psychiatry and the Law

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in American Psychiatry and the Law ((CIAP,volume 4))

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Serious discussion of any form of restraint of psychiatric patients leads to civilization’s perennial dilemma of how to regard and manage the mentally ill: when and how and whether at all it may be justified to interfere with their freedom because of mental illness. The inescapable disputes about restraint apply to all ages and the special factors pertaining to children* will therefore have to be addressed in the context of the overriding issues.† Because in the absense of universal agreement any discourse on the subject is largely a personal statement of the individual author’s views and experiences, some of the ground gone over elsewhere in this book will be repeated in this chapter.

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  1. Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Gaebler Children’s Center, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02254, USA

    Donald S. Gair

  2. Department of Child Psychiatry and Child Development, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    Donald S. Gair

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  1. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, USA

    Richard Rosner M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director) (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director)

  2. American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, USA

    Richard Rosner M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director) (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director)

  3. American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, USA

    Richard Rosner M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director) (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director)

  4. Forensic Psychiatry Clinic for the New York Criminal and Supreme Courts (First Judicial Department), New York, New York, USA

    Richard Rosner M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director) (Clinical Associate Professor, Fellow, Diplomate, Medical Director)

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

    Harold I. Schwartz M.D. (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief) (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief)

  6. Psychiatric Outpatient Services, USA

    Harold I. Schwartz M.D. (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief) (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief)

  7. Program in Psychiatry and Law, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Harold I. Schwartz M.D. (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief) (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief)

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Gair, D.S. (1989). Psychiatric Restraint of Children and Adolescents: Clinical and Legal Aspects. In: Rosner, R., Schwartz, H.I. (eds) Juvenile Psychiatry and the Law. Critical Issues in American Psychiatry and the Law, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5526-7_21

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