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Ethical Considerations for Restraint and Physical Management

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Behavior analysts work hard to ensure that they have carefully and ethically performed the required tasks to determine an intervention that offers the greatest potential to successfully address a behavior. With most behaviors, interventions can be developed that are reasonable and less stressful for the individual’s participation. But what do you do if the individual is getting physical and injuring themselves or others?

In such circumstances, potentially problematic interventions need to be considered, such as physically restraining or secluding the individual. When these serious interventions are considered, it is absolutely crucial to evaluate and reevaluate ethical considerations as painstakingly as possible to ensure that the intervention can be implemented with the lowest risk for negative consequences.

For this Discussion, you will think about a situation involving restraint or another physical management technique and discuss methods for implementing the technique in the most ethical manner possible.

To Prepare

  • Review the Learning Resources for this week, including the required weekly media programs, to gain an understanding of restraint and physical management. Note: It will be critical for you to review all the media for this week to complete this Discussion.
  • Consider a situation in which restraint or physical management was necessary.
  • Post a description of a situation in which restraint or physical management was necessary. In the situation, how might the intervention be implemented in the most ethical manner? What additional intervention training might you consider? Based on the Learning Resources and your experiences, have your beliefs on restraint and physical management evolved throughout the week? Why or why not?

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